Dr. Carissa F. Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and Regional Director for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO), formally began her second five-year term on 1 February 2018. She was re-elected by PAHO Member States during the Pan American Sanitary Conference on September 2017. She was also named Regional Director for the Americas for WHO by the WHO Executive Board in Geneva in late January 2018.
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