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Margaret Chan

Margaret Chan is director-general of the World Health Organisation

November 2016

  • A man smokes a cigarette in Medan, Indonesia

    Every tobacco death is an avoidable tragedy. The epidemic must stop here

    Margaret Chan
    As India prepares to host a key global anti-tobacco conference, the world must seize the chance to end a scourge that claims 6m lives a year

December 2010

  • malaria nets

    Poverty matters blog
    Defeating malaria is within our grasp

    Margaret Chan and Ray Chambers: The historic opportunity to end all deaths from malaria by 2015 is within our reach - and it is affordable - if we are committed to see the challenge through