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For those of you have not heard about this promises to be very
interesting..
Check it out if you have the time.

Take care,
 Celia

> ======================================================================
> > LIVE WEBCAST OF WHO DIRECTOR GENERAL CANDIDATE PUBLIC
> > DISCUSSION FORUM
> >
> ======================================================================
> > 
> > This Sunday, candidates for the top post in world health
> > - the Director General of the World Health Organization
> > (WHO) - will participate in a two hour world-wide
> > question and answer session open to the public and linked
> > across the world via video and teleconferencing and
> > through a webcast on kaisernetwork.org.
> > 
> > Questions will be submitted from several international
> > sites by health ministers, non-governmental
> > organizations, and other leaders in the healthcare
> > sector, asking candidates to address publicly the most
> > critical issues in global health today.
> > 
> > The eight candidates for the position, in alphabetical
> > order, include: (1) Awa Marie Coll-Seck, Health Minister
> > of Senegal; (2) Julio Frenk, Health Minister of Mexico
> > and a public health expert; (3) Karam Karam, a former
> > Health Minister of Lebanon; (4) Jong Wook Lee, a doctor
> > from South Korea, head of WHO's programme to stop
> > tuberculosis; (5) Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi, Prime Minister
> > of Mozambique and formerly his country's Minister of
> > Health; (6) Peter Piot, head of UNAIDS, a Belgian
> > epidemiologist and microbiologist; (7) Ismail Sallam, a
> > professor of cardiac surgery who was until recently
> > Egypt's Minster of Health and Population; and (8) Joseph
> > Williams, a medical doctor and parliamentarian and
> > formerly was Prime Minister of the Cook Islands.
> > 
> > The live webcast will take place on Sunday, Jan. 19, at
> > 9:00 a.m. ET. An archived webcast will be available on
> > Monday, and a transcript of the forum will be posted
> > later in the week.
> > 
> > WHERE:
> > http://www.kaisernetwork.org/healthcast/who/19jan03
> 
> 
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