Speeches and messages

Regional Director’s inaugural address at the Regional meeting on eliminating cervical cancer as a public health problem in the South-East Asia Region

Regional Director’s special address at India Global Forum’s Global Health Tech Boardroom

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the Inter-Ministerial Meeting to Revitalize Health Promoting Schools in South-East Asia Region

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the Summit of the Regional Directors of UN Agencies

Regional Director’s keynote address at the inaugural session of the CII’s 3rd Edition of the Regional Healthcare Summit on “Breakthrough Solutions for the Next Decade”

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the FAO-OIE-WHO meeting on One Health approach on AMR mitigation and safer food in the Asia-Pacific Region

Regional Director’s special address for the Economic Times SDG Summit

Regional Director’s address at the 6th meeting of the WHO South-East Asia Region Verification Commission for Measles and Rubella Elimination

Regional Director’s closing remarks at the Seventy-fourth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia

Regional Director’s “regional perspective” remarks at the Ministerial Roundtable of the Seventy-fourth Session of the Regional Committee

Regional Director’s “setting the scene” remarks at the Ministerial Roundtable of the Seventy-fourth Session of the Regional Committee

Regional Director’s Annual Report 2020 introductory speech at the Seventy-fourth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia

Regional Director’s inaugural address at the Seventy-fourth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the 14th Bi-Regional Meeting of National Influenza Centres and influenza surveillance in WHO’s Western Pacific and South-East Asia Regions

Regional Director’s inaugural address at the First Expert Panel Meeting of the South-East Asia Region on Healthy Ageing

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the 12th meeting of the SEA Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group

Regional Director’s remarks at the WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination’s 20th Anniversary Webinar Series

Regional Director’s World Hepatitis Day message to the Parliament of India, Lok Sabha

World Hepatitis Day

Regional Director’s opening remarks at the Bi-regional Technical Advisory Group on the Asia Pacific Strategy for Emerging Diseases and Public Health Emergencies (APSED III): Advancing Implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005)