Anders Nordström (born 9 March 1960) is a Swedish physician who served as

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Director-General of the

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(WHO) from 22 May 2006 to 8 November 2006.

Career

Nordström trained as a physician at

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and has experience in the field of national and international

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and planning and strategic leadership. Nordström worked with the Swedish

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and the

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. He has also worked for the

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(Sida) for over 12 years, including 3 years in

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. In 2002, Nordström briefly served as the Interim Executive Director for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Nordström became Assistant Director-General for General Management at WHO in July 2003 and, in May 2006, Acting Director-General on the death of Lee Jong-wook. Later named WHO Assistant Director-General for Health Systems and Services, one of his main contributions was to advance policy for manpower in health services, especially for low-income countries. Nordström served as the Director General of SIDA from January 2008 to May 2010. In May 2010, after the effects of the Swedish aid-budget decline due to the

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, he was requested to resign because of the agency's financial difficulties. Later, in April 2012, Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson appointed Nordström as the declared "world's first Global Health Ambassador". On behalf of the Swedish Government he has the formal title as Ambassador and leads a team to oversee and strategically advise the Ministry for Foreign Affairs on a substantial global health portfolio. In April 2015, after a tenure as Sweden's Ambassador for Global Health, Nordström was appointed back to WHO as the organisation's country representative to Sierra Leone for two year

In 2020, he was appointed to head the secretariat of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR), which is chaired by

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. Since 2022, he has been a member of the Commission for Universal Health convened by

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and co-chaired by

and

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Other activities

* Virchow Prize for Global Health, Member of the Council (since 2022)Council
�Virchow Prize for Global Health.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nordstrom, Anders Swedish public health doctors Swedish civil servants 1960 births Living people Swedish officials of the United Nations World Health Organization directors-general Karolinska Institute alumni