Margaret Chan Quotes - Page 2

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• The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

  Margaret Chan

  Opportunity, Play, Roles

  "Birth of a Surgeon". "Wide Angel" with Aaron Brown, www.pbs.org. July 15, 2008.

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• We should never forget the government should be held accountable for providing services.

  Margaret Chan

  Government, Never Forget, Should

  "Birth of a Surgeon". "Wide Angel" with Aaron Brown, www.pbs.org. July 15, 2008.

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• This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency.

  Margaret Chan

  Government, Community, Ministry

  "Businesses urged to prepare for flu pandemic". Interview with Desley Coleman, www.abc.net.au. May 1, 2009.

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• I think U.N. organizations are important organizations. They exist for good reasons. And we also admit that there is room for us to improve the way we do business. The WHO will be a very positive and proactive partner in the overall U.N. reform, which is also important.

  Margaret Chan

  Thinking, Organization, Important

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 16, 2007.

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• Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Taken, Pandemics

  "Influenza A(H1N1)". www.who.int. April 29, 2009.

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• All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If a declared interest is potentially significant, then the expert is either excluded from the meeting or given a restricted role.

  Margaret Chan

  Experts, Roles, Groups

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• A severe disease that transmits easily will leave very little international surge capacity as most countries will need their own staff and resources to combat the outbreak in their territories.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Disease, Littles

  "Are We Prepared? An Exclusive Interview with WHO Director-General Margaret Chan". “Next Outbreak” with Joanne Silberner, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2015.

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• The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.

  Margaret Chan

  Impact, Events, Viruses

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• [we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.

  Margaret Chan

  People, Malaria, Taming

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• When WHO works with the private sector, the Organization takes all possible measures to ensure its work to develop policy and guidelines is protected from industry influence.

  Margaret Chan

  Organization, Influence, Guidelines

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• After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

  Margaret Chan

  Humanity, Pandemics, Threat

  "When a pandemic isn't a pandemic" by Elizabeth Cohen, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2009.

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• The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Responsibility, Paris

  "Exclusive Interview with WHO's Dr. Margaret Chan". Frontlines Interview, www.usaid.gov. April/May, 2011.

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• Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.

  Margaret Chan

  Beautiful, Safe, Mexico

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• Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.

  Margaret Chan

  Epidemics, Malaria, Mosquitoes

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• At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.

  Margaret Chan

  Loss, People, World

  "Health chief warns: age of safe medicine is ending" by Jeremy Laurance, www.independent.co.uk. March 16, 2012.

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• What amazes me most is that the media and I have fostered a close relationship.

  Margaret Chan

  Media, Close Relationship

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• New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

  Margaret Chan

  People, Anxiety, Community

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