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Margaret Chan
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Chinese-Canadian physician (born 1947)
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It sits within the topics 1947 births, 20th-century Canadian women scientists and 20th-century Chinese medical doctors.
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Margaret
- Family name
- Chen
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Hong Kong
- Occupation
- physician
- Position held
- Director-General of the World Health Organization
- Educated at
- National University of Singapore
- Employer
- United Nations
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Anglicanism
- Field of work
- global health
- Image
- Margaret Chan - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011 crop.jpg
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- Commons category
- Margaret Chan
- date of birth
- 1947-08-22
- member of
- Royal College of Physicians, London
- birth name
- 馮富珍
- described at URL
- www.tatlerasia.com/people/margaret-chan
- affiliation string
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- affiliation
- World Health Organization
- P10632
- Margaret Chan
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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.