| In April 1992, she was promoted to Deputy Director and, in June 1994, was named the first woman in Hong Kong to head the Department of Health | In November 1989, she was promoted to Assistant Director of the |
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| Somini Sengupta January 6, 2015 , | Beijing, China: People's Republic of China |
First term [ ] Margaret Chan and Russian Prime Minister in 2009 In February 2007, Chan provoked the anger of humanitarian and civil society groups [ ] by questioning the quality of generic medicines while on a visit to.
22| From 2003 until 2005, Chan served as the Representative of the for Pandemic Influenza and as Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases | Her profile was raised by her handling, in those positions, of the 1997 outbreak and the 2003 outbreak in Hong Kong |
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| Somini Sengupta 6 January 2015 , , New York Times , retrieved 20 January 2016• McCarthy, Todd December 1, 2014 | When many more H5N1 cases appeared, she was criticized for misleading the public |
Chan is either winking at the reality to maintain contact with the North or she allowed herself to be fooled.
14| She became "a symbol of ignorance and arrogance epitomizing the mentality of 'business as usual' embedded in the ideological and institutional practices within the bureaucracy, especially after the hand-over | Chan was initially trained as a teacher at the Northcote College of Education, now the |
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| In 2014, Chan was ranked as the 30th most powerful woman in the world, based on her position as Director-General, by Forbes | " On 18 January 2012, Chan was nominated by the WHO's Executive Board for a second term and was confirmed by the on 23 May 2012 |
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