Speeches and messages

Opening Address at the Advancing Global Health Security: From Commitments to Actions’ meeting

Address by the Regional Director at the Elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and Syphilis by Thailand

World Blood Donor Day 2016

World No Tobacco Day 2016

Address by the Regional Director at the Regional Workshop for Improving Quality of Hospital Care for Maternal and Newborn Health

Address by the Regional Director at the Lessons Learnt Conference: Health Sector response to Nepal Earthquake 2015, Kathmandu, 21-22 April 2016

Global Leprosy Strategy Launch

Regional Director's Address to Staff on World Health Day 2016

Regional Consultation on “Health, the SDGs and role of Universal Health Coverage: next steps in South East Asia"

World Water Day 2016 - "Water and Jobs"

Unite to end TB: Fast Tracking access to quality diagnosis and treatment International Meeting for Ending TB

International Women's Day 2016

The Meeting on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance: Public Health Challenges and Priority

Opening speech at the launch of the national malaria elimination framework

World Cancer Day 2016 - We Can. I Can.

The Foundation Day Lecture on “Cancer” at the inauguration of WHO-FCTC Global Hub for information on smokeless tobacco at the Institute of Cytology & Preventive Oncology (ICPO)

The Thirty-fourth Session of WHO South-East Asia Advisory Committee on Health Research

WNTD award giving ceremony to H.E. Dr Namburakara Helambage Rajitha Harischandra Senaratne, Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine, Sri Lanka

50th Anniversary of WHO-Maldives Partnership

International Day of Persons with Disabilities - Inclusion matters: Access and empowerment for people of all abilities