Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus - Global Health and Human Rights

We are delighted to announce HRLC’s Annual Lecture 2020:

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Director-General of the World Health Organization

Global Health and Human Rights

The online lecture will take place on Friday 11 December, 13:00-14:00 UK Time. It will be hosted by Professor Aoife Nolan, Co-Director of the Human Rights Law Centre.

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected as WHO Director-General for a five-year term by WHO Member States at the Seventieth World Health Assembly in May 2017. He is the first WHO Director-General to have been elected from multiple candidates by the World Health Assembly, and is the first person from the WHO African Region to serve as WHO’s chief technical and administrative officer.
 
Prior to his election as WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros served as Ethiopia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012–2016. In this role he led efforts to negotiate the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, in which 193 countries committed to the financing necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Dr Tedros served as Ethiopia’s Minister of Health from 2005–2012, where he led a comprehensive reform of the country’s health system.
 
Dr Tedros holds a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in Community Health from the University of Nottingham and a Master of Science (MSc) in Immunology of Infectious Diseases from the University of London. Dr Tedros is globally recognised as a health scholar, researcher, and diplomat with first-hand experience in research, operations, and leadership in emergency responses to epidemics. Throughout his career Dr Tedros has published numerous articles in prominent scientific journals, and received awards and recognition from across the globe. He received the Decoration of the Order of Serbian Flag in 2016, and was awarded the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award in recognition of his contributions to the field of public health in 2011.

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A. Given high levels of interest, all questions must be sent in advance to hrlc@nottingham.ac.uk by Thursday 3 December at 12 noon.