Zsuzsanna Jakab for WHO Regional Director for Europe

Zsuzsanna Jakab, current Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has been nominated as the next WHO Regional Director for Europe.

Born in 1951 in Hungary, Mrs. Jakab holds a Master’s degree of Sciences and a postgraduate degree from the University of Political Sciences, both from Budapest, a diploma in Public Health at the Nordic School of Public Health of Gothenburg (Sweden) and a postgraduate diploma from the National Institute of Public Administration and Management.

Before joining the Hungarian Government in 2002, she worked at the WHO Regional Office for Europe in Denmark for 11 years during which she held several posts, such as Director of Administration and Management Support at the Regional Office.

In 2002, she joined the Hungarian Ministry of Health where she became Secretary of State, responsible for managing the national implementation of EU policies and laws in the health field, administering the spending of EU financial assistance and managing Hungary’s national public health programme.

She was appointed as Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in 2005, where she will work until February 2010.

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59th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe