Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh nominated WHO
Regional Director
SEAR/PR 1564
New Delhi, 12 September 2013: Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh was nominated as Regional Director for
the WHO South-East Asia Region today. She was nominated to the post of Regional
Director (RD) for a five-year term by the 11 Member States of the Region. The 32
member Executive Board of the World Health Organization is expected to appoint
Dr Khetrapal Singh as Regional Director in January 2014, in Geneva. Dr Khetrapal
Singh is expected to take office as the RD at the Regional Office in New Delhi
on 1 February 2014.
As the Regional Director, Dr Khetrapal Singh
brings a vast repertoire of experience, having worked in the health sector for
over three decades at both national and international levels. She served with
WHO for the past 15 years. She is the first woman to be nominated to this post
in the Region.
She started her WHO career in 1998 as a member
of Dr Gro Harlem Brundland’s cabinet who was WHO Director-General at the time.
Dr Khetrapal Singh served as the Executive Director for Sustainable Development
and Healthy Environments in Geneva. From 2000 to 2013, as the Deputy Regional
Director for WHO’s South-East Asia Region, she served as the principal adviser
to the Regional Director, providing managerial, technical and programmatic
support for WHO’s programmes.
Dr Khetrapal Singh served as a senior civil servant in India as a
member of the Indian Administrative Services. She was Secretary and Joint
Secretary Health and Family Welfare. She has also served with Health,
Population and Nutrition (PHN) with the World Bank Mission in India, where she
worked to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the delivery of health
services. Recently she has been working as an Adviser in International health
to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, in the Government of India
For more information, please visit our
website: http://www.searo.who.int/en/
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*WHO’s South-East Asia Region comprises the following 11 Member States:
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia,
Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Timor-Leste###
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