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Composition of the Board Members of the Executive Board and Term of Office The Executive Board is composed of 34 persons who are technically qualified in the field of health, each designated by a Member State that has been elected to serve by the World Health Assembly. Member States are elected for three-year terms.

The affiliations appear in the style and the language used by the corresponding member of the Board.

AFRICA

CAMEROON (2023-2026)
Dr Malachie Manaouda
Ministre de la Santé publique
Yaoundé

COMOROS (2023-2026)
Dr Said Anli Aboubacar
Secrétaire général, Ministère de la Santé, de la Solidarité, de la Protection sociale et de la Promotion du Genre
Moroni

ETHIOPIA (2022-2025)
Dr Mekdes Daba Feyssa
Minister of Health
Addis Abeba

LESOTHO (2023-2026)
Dr Makhoase Ranyali
Director General of Health Services
Ministry of Health
Maseru

SENEGAL (2022-2025)
Docteur Ibrahima Sy
Ministre de la Santé et de l’Action sociale
Dakar

TOGO (2023-2026)
Dr Yawa Djatugbé Apétsianyi
Directrice générale des Etudes, de la Planification et de l’Information sanitaire
Ministère de la Santé
Lomé

ZIMBABWE (2024-2027)
Dr Aspect J.C. Maunganidze
Permanent Secretary for Health and Child care
Ministry of Health and Child Care
Harare

AMERICAS

BARBADOS (2023-2026)
Mr Jerome X. Walcott
Minister of Health and Wellness
Bridgetown

BRAZIL (2022-2025)
Mr Tovar da Silva Nunes
Ambassador, Permanent Representative
Geneva

CANADA (2022-2025)
Ms Christine Harmston
Director General
Office of International Affairs for the Health Portfolio
Government of Canada
Ottawa

CHILE (2024-2027)
Dra. Alejandra Pizarro Ibáñez
Agregada en Salud
Misión Permanente
Ginebra

COSTA RICA (2024-2027)
Dra. Mary Munive Angermeller
Ministra de Salud
San José

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2022-2025)
To be communicated
Washington DC

SOUTH-EAST ASIA

DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA (2023-2026)
Dr Pak Jong Min
Director, Department of External Affairs
Ministry of Public Health
Pyongyang

MALDIVES (2022-2025)
Dr Abdulla Nazim Ibrahim
Minister of Health
Malé

THAILAND (2024-2027)
Dr Suwit Wibulpolprasert
Advisor to the Office of the Permanent Secretary
Ministry of Public Health
Nonthaburi

EUROPE

BULGARIA (2024-2027)
Professor Plamen Dimitrov
Director, National Centre of Public Health and Analyses
Sofia

ISRAEL (2024-2027)
Dr Asher Salmon
Head, International Relations Division
Ministry of Health
Jerusalem

NORWAY (2024-2027)
Dr Cathrine Marie Lofthus
Secretary General
Ministry of Health and Care Services
Oslo

POLAND (2024-2027)
Mrs Katarzyna Drazek-Laskowska
Director, Department of International Co-operation
Ministry of Health
Warsaw

REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA (2022-2025)
Dr Ala Nemerenco
Minister of Health
Chisnau

SLOVAKIA (2022-2025)
Professor Jozef Šuvada
Ambassador of the Slovak Republic for Global Health
Bratislava

SWITZERLAND (2023-2026)
Mme Barbara Schedler Fischer
Ambassadrice pour la Santé globale, Vice-Directrice de Office fédéral de la Santé publique
Berne

UKRAINE (2023-2026)
Dr Viktor Liashko
Minister of Health
Kiev

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

LEBANON (2024-2027)
Dr Firass Abiad
Minister of Public Health
Beirut

MOROCCO (2022-2025)
Dr Abdelkrim Meziane Bellefquih
Secrétaire général, Ministère de la Santé et de la Protection sociale
Rabat

QATAR (2023-2026)
Dr Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari
Doha

SOMALIA (2024-2027)
Dr Ali Haji Adam Abubakar
Minister of Health and Human Services
Mogadishu

YEMEN (2022-2025)
Dr Qasem Mohammed Buhaibah
Minister of Public Health and Population

WESTERN PACIFIC

AUSTRALIA (2023-2026)
Mr Blair Exell
Deputy Secretary, Health Strategy, First Nations and Sport Group, Department of Health and Aged Care
Canberra

BRUNEI DARUSSALAM (2024-2027)
Dr Haji Mohammad Isham Haji Jaafar
Minister of Health
Bandar Seri Begawan

CHINA (2022-2025)
Mr Li Mingzhu
Commissioner, Department of International Cooperation, National Health Commission
Beijing

MICRONESIA (2022-2025)
Mr Marcus Samo
Secretary, Department of Health and Social Affairs
Palikir

REPUBLIC OF KOREA (2024-2027)
Mr Minsoo Park
2nd Vice Minister of Health and Welfare
Seoul

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