Margaret Chan is director-general of the World Health Organisation
November 2016
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
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