Speeches and messages

Regional Director’s Speech, during her Country Mission, addressing Ministry of Health, Timor-Leste, at MOH Conference Hall, Ministry of Health, Palacio Cinza

Speech by Regional Director Ms Saima Wazed during the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Field Epidemiology Training Program and launch of the National Influenza Center and Simulation Lab, National Institute of Public Health, Timor-Leste

Regional Director’s Opening Remarks during 15th Meeting of the WHO South-East Asia Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group (SEAR-ITAG), New Delhi

Regional Director’s Opening remarks at the inauguration of the “Regional consultation on Draft Global Strategy for traditional medicine 2025: 2034 and to set the regional research priorities for WHO SEA region”

Regional Director’s Opening Remarks during Regional Workshop on Advancing Organ Transplantation in SEAR, New Delhi, India

Regional Director’s Opening Remarks during WHO South-East Asia Regional Workshop: Strengthening capacity of countries to address the impact of climate change on mental health, Bali, Indonesia

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

16th ASEAN Health Ministers Meeting (AHMM)Theme: Transforming ASEAN Health Development in a New Context, Vientiane

World Breastfeeding Week

WHO South-East Asia Regional Health Emergency Operations Centre Trainers’ Workshop, Delhi, India

World Hepatitis Day

World Drowning Prevention Day

Regional Director’s Opening Remarks during Regional Multi-stakeholder Consultations: ’On the Road to 2025: Fourth UN high-level meeting on NCDs’, Delhi, India

Regional Director’s Address at the Regional Meeting on accelerating access to rehabilitation in Southeast Asia, Dhaka, Bangladesh

World Population Day

Regional Director’s Message during Regional Consultation on Adolescent Pregnancy Policy/ Legal and Programmatic barriers to adolescents and young people’s access to health information and services across South Asia, Kathmandu, Nepal

Regional Director’s Opening Speech during the Meeting for the development of action plans towards interruption of transmission and elimination of leprosy disease in the Region of the Americas, La Antigua Guatemala

Regional Director’s Opening Address in South-East Asia Regulatory Network Meeting of the Assembly of the Members, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Regional Director’s Speech during South-East Asia Regional workshop to address the challenges of illicit tobacco trade and unrecorded alcohol, Bangkok, Thailand

Regional Director’s Speech during Regional Workshop on "Implementation of Good Reliance Practices for Vaccines Regulation based on emerging novel technologies”, Pune, India