GENEVA, CMC– The United Nations Workplace in Geneva, Switzerland, says the brand new Everlasting Consultant of Guyana, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, offered his credentials to Director-Common Tatiana Valovaya on Wednesday.
The UN Workplace mentioned that earlier than his appointment, Ramsammy served as an advisor to the Minister of Well being of Guyana and concurrently chaired the Presidential Fee on Prevention and Management of Non-Communicable Illness since 2020.
Ramsammy additionally served as chair of the Georgetown Public Hospital Company since 2022. As well as, the UN Workplace in Geneva mentioned Ramsammy was Minister of Agriculture of Guyana from 2011 to 2015 and Minister of Well being from 2001 to 2011.
Dr. Ramsammy’s intensive expertise in public well being is a testomony to his capabilities. He has been chairman of the Govt Board of the Pan Caribbean Partnership towards HIV/AIDS, the Caribbean Neighborhood’s Council for Human and Social Improvement, and the Caribbean Public Well being Company.
The UN Workplace in Geneva mentioned Ramsammy was chairman of the World Fund for Reasonably priced Medicines for Malaria between 2010 and 2011 and president of the World Well being Group’s 61st World Meeting (2008-2009).
Dr. Ramsammy’s instructional background is spectacular. He holds a Ph. D. diploma from St. John’s College in Queens, New York (1982), a grasp’s diploma from the identical College (1979), and a bachelor’s diploma from Tempo College in New York (1977).
The UN Workplace in Geneva mentioned Dr. Ramsammy was a Menschel Fellow on the prestigious Harvard College of Public Well being in Massachusetts in 2015.
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