South Korean WHO veteran has tough act to follow

doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7413.468

BMJ 2003;327:468 (30 August), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7413.468

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South Korean WHO veteran has tough act to follow

Fiona Fleck

Geneva

Dr Jong-Wook Lee, new director general of WHO, wants to takea fresh look at the organisation

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When Dr Jong-Wook Lee became the new director general of theWorld Health Organization in July, one of the first thingshe did was to recruit external consultants to help his teamin the daunting task of making the agency work more efficiently.

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After 20 years in the organisation—from 1983 as a leprosyexpert in the South Pacific to more recent posts as head ofWHO's global programme for vaccines and, in 2000, head of WHO'sStop TB programme— he said the time was ripe to takea fresh look at how WHO worked.

"Cynics say that a consultant borrows your watch and then tellsyou the time," Dr Lee, aged 58, said in an interview with theBMJ, adding, in his trademark self effacing style: "But maybefrom time to time we don't know what time it is and it is niceto be reminded."

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