Dr. Mohamed Yakub Janabi, a cardiologist and health policy expert from Tanzania, has been nominated to lead the World Health Organization’s regional office for Africa as its new director.
African health ministers chose him during a special session in Geneva this weekend ahead of the 78th World Health Assembly.
His nomination comes as the result of an unprecedented election season for the health agency following the nomination of Dr. Faustine Ndugulile, also from Tanzania, for the role last August, who unexpectedly died three months later while receiving treatment in India.
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