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Margaret Chan

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Margaret Chan

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Also known as Chan Fung Fu-chun, Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun

Chinese-Canadian physician (born 1947)

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Margaret Chan is a person affiliated with the World Health Organization (WHO). Born on August 22, 1947, the individual is associated with Hong Kong. MusicBrainz data identifies the subject as male and lists genres including 1970s, 1970s hong kong debut, 1980s, 1990s, and actor.

In terms of written works, Open Library attributes eight works to Margaret Chan, including *Mainile Curate Salveaza Vieti*, *Clean Hands Save Lives*, *Die Rettende Geste*, *O Gesto Que Salva*, and *Gesto Salvador*. Crossref records indicate five works. The subject is referenced by 118 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
8

Top works

  • Mainile Curate Salveaza Vieti
  • Clean Hands Save Lives
  • Die Rettende Geste
  • O Gesto Que Salva
  • Gesto Salvador

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Hong Kong
Active from
1958-09-07
Active to
1993-10-25
1970s1970s hong kong debut1980s1990sactorappear on hong kong postage stamps

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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Quotes

  • Children's health depends on the mothers, so if we can scale up the achievement of the MDGs, it would benefit people in Africa. We should also look at how we can empower women to leverage their resources and their creativity and become change agents. We have seen example after example where women who are appropriately motivated and given the right environment can make changes, not only to themselves but also to their families and their communities.
  • There are two things that I feel very happy about from my tenure as Director of Health in Hong Kong: we introduced primary health care and preventive services from conception to old age; and we worked with herbalists to put Traditional Chinese Medicine on a firm footing of promotion, development and regulation.
  • I want to remind governments in every country of the range and force of counter-tactics used by the tobacco industry – an industry that has much money and no qualms about using it in the most devious ways imaginable.
  • Health systems are social institutions. They do far more for society than deliver babies and pills, like a post office delivering parcels. Properly managed and adequately financed, a fair and equitable health system contributes to social cohesion and stability.
  • In my view, the best way is to go back to the basics: the values, principles, and approaches of primary health care. Abundant evidence, over decades of experience, supports this view. Countries at similar levels of socioeconomic development achieve better health outcomes for the money when services are organized according to the principles of primary health care.
  • The reduction of poverty is the over-arching objective of the MDGs. Progress is not measured by national or global averages, but by how well the health of the poor improves. If we miss the poor, we miss the point. A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact.

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Key facts

Preceded by
Anders Nordström (acting)
Succeeded by
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Born
Margaret Fung Fu-chun , ( 1947-08-21 ) 21 August 1947 (age 78) , British Hong Kong
Spouse
David Chan
Alma mater
Northecote College of Education ( Cert ), University of Western Ontario ( BA , MD ), National University of Singapore ( MS )

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Encyclopedic overview

Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun (born 21 August 1947) is a Chinese-Canadian physician and politician, who served as the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) delegating the People's Republic of China from 2006 to 2017. Chan previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government (1994–2003) and representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza and WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases (2003–2006). In 2014, Forbes ranked her as the 30th most powerful woman in the world. In early 2018 she joined the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

She was widely criticized for her handling of the 1997 H5N1 avian influenza outbreak and the 2003 SARS outbreak in Hong Kong, and for her frequent travels while serving as Director-General of the WHO.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Margaret Chan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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