Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu has officially handed over the position
of Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, to Dr. Ifedayo
Adetifa.
This was announced by the Agency in a post on social media
showing a photo of the handing over ceremony.
“As we undergo this transition in leadership, we reflect on
our collective efforts in building an effective institution and strengthening
capacity for national and global health security,” the NCDC captioned the
photo.
This is as Ihekweazu prepares to mount the position of
Assistant Director General of Health Emergency Intelligence at the World Health
Organisation on November 1, 2021.
WHO Director General, Tedros Ghebreyesus had announced the
appointment in a statement sighted by our correspondent which was addressed to
all members of the health organisation.
It partly read, “I am pleased to welcome Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu
as an Assistant Director-General for Health Emergency Intelligence from
November 1, 2021.
“He will lead the work on strengthening pandemic and
epidemic intelligence globally, including heading the WHO Hub for Pandemic and
Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin.
“Dr Ihekweazu is currently the Director-General of Nigeria
Centre for Disease Control. He was trained as an infectious disease
epidemiologist, has over 20 years of experience working in senior public health
and leadership positions in several National Public Health Institutes,
including the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases, the
United Kingdom’s Health Protection Agency, and Germany’s Robert Koch Institute.
“He has led several short-term engagements for WHO, mainly
in response to major infectious disease outbreaks around the world.
“Dr Ihekweazu, a Nigerian national, who was born in Germany,
is a graduate of the College of Medicine, University of Nigeria and has a
Masters in Public Health from the Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf,
Germany. In 2003, he was awarded a Fellowship for the European Programme for
Intervention Epidemiology Training and subsequently completed his Public Health
specialization in the United Kingdom.
“He is widely published in medical peer-reviewed journals.”
Ihekweazu will be remembered for the role he played in
Nigeria’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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