"the most senior health official in the world" - sez who? She's a glorified Home Ec teacher, with thoroughly worthless training in "Public Health" and management (at Harvard, mother ship of the oligarchs).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Chan
From Carol's link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Chan
Margaret Chan was initially trained as a Home Economics teacher at the Northcote College of Education in Hong Kong.
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Chan completed the Program for Management Development (PMD 61) at Harvard Business School in 1991.
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As Director of Health of Hong Kong:
Her profile was raised by her handling, in those positions, of the 1997 H5N1 avian influenza outbreak and the 2003 SARS outbreak in Hong Kong. After the first victim of the H5N1, Chan first tried to reassure Hong Kong residents with her infamous statements like, "I ate chicken last night"[7] or "I eat chicken every day, don't panic, everyone".[8][9][10] When many more H5N1 cases appeared, she was criticized for misleading the public. [11] In the end, she was credited for helping bring the epidemic under control by the slaughter of 1.5 million chickens in the region in the face of stiff political opposition.[12]
Her performance during the SARS outbreak, which ultimately led to 299 deaths, attracted harsh criticism from the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and many SARS victims and their relatives.[10] She was criticised by the Legislative Council for her passiveness,[13] for believing in misleading information shared by the mainland authority, and for not acting swiftly.[14]
(After she became the WHO Director-General in 2006 )
In February 2007, Chan provoked the anger of humanitarian and civil society groups by questioning the quality of generic medicines while on a visit to Thailand.[20]
After a visit to North Korea in April 2010, Chan said malnutrition was a problem in the country but that North Korea's health system would be the envy of many developing countries because of the abundance of medical staff.[21] She also noted there were no signs of obesity in the country, which is a newly emerging problem in other parts of Asia. Chan's comments marked a significant departure from that of her predecessor, Gro Harlem Brundtland, who said in 2001 that North Korea's health system was near collapse.[22] The director-general's assessment was criticised, including in a Wall Street Journal editorial which called her statements "surreal." The editorial further stated, "Ms. Chan is either winking at the reality to maintain contact with the North or she allowed herself to be fooled."[23]
In 2014 and 2015 Dr. Chan was heavily criticised because of the slow response of the WHO to the Ebola outbreak in West-Africa.
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Chan's new term began on 1 July 2012 and continues until 30 June 2017.[19]
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In 2014, she was ranked as the 30th most powerful woman in the world, based on her position as Director-General, by Forbes. Her ranking increased from 33rd in 2013.[4]
Ugh.
