NCDC DG Ihekweazu Gets WHO job, Resumes Nov 1

The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control,
Chikwe Ihekweazu, is set to resume as the Assistant
Director-General of Health Emergency Intelligence at the World
Health Organisation on November 1, 2021.

This was disclosed in a letter signed by the WHO
Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus.

The letter, which was sighted by our correspondent was addressed
to all staff members of the organisation.

It partly reads, “I am pleased to welcome Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu as
an Assistant Director-General for Health Emergency Intelligence
from November 1, 2021.

“He will lead the work on strengthening pandemic and epidemic
intelligence globally, including heading the WHO Hub for Pandemic
and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin.

“Dr Ihekweazu is currently the Director-General of Nigeria
Centre for Disease Control. He was trained as an infectious disease
epidemiologist, has over 20 years of experience working in senior
public health and leadership positions in several National Public
Health Institutes, including the South African National Institute
for Communicable Diseases, the United Kingdom’s Health Protection
Agency, and Germany’s Robert Koch Institute.

“He has led several short-term engagements for WHO, mainly in
response to major infectious disease outbreaks around the
world.

“Dr Ihekweazu, a Nigerian national, who was born in Germany, is
a graduate of the College of Medicine, University of Nigeria and
has a Masters in Public Health from the Heinrich-Heine University,
Dusseldorf, Germany. In 2003, he was awarded a Fellowship for the
European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training and
subsequently completed his Public Health specialization in the
United Kingdom. He is widely published in medical peer-review
journals.”

Culled from PunchNG.

The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control,
Chikwe Ihekweazu, is set to resume as the Assistant
Director-General of Health Emergency Intelligence at the World
Health Organisation on November 1, 2021.

This was disclosed in a letter signed by the WHO
Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus.

The letter, which was sighted by our correspondent was addressed
to all staff members of the organisation.

It partly reads, “I am pleased to welcome Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu as
an Assistant Director-General for Health Emergency Intelligence
from November 1, 2021.

“He will lead the work on strengthening pandemic and epidemic
intelligence globally, including heading the WHO Hub for Pandemic
and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin.

“Dr Ihekweazu is currently the Director-General of Nigeria
Centre for Disease Control. He was trained as an infectious disease
epidemiologist, has over 20 years of experience working in senior
public health and leadership positions in several National Public
Health Institutes, including the South African National Institute
for Communicable Diseases, the United Kingdom’s Health Protection
Agency, and Germany’s Robert Koch Institute.

“He has led several short-term engagements for WHO, mainly in
response to major infectious disease outbreaks around the
world.

“Dr Ihekweazu, a Nigerian national, who was born in Germany, is
a graduate of the College of Medicine, University of Nigeria and
has a Masters in Public Health from the Heinrich-Heine University,
Dusseldorf, Germany. In 2003, he was awarded a Fellowship for the
European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training and
subsequently completed his Public Health specialization in the
United Kingdom. He is widely published in medical peer-review
journals.”

Culled from PunchNG.