note from our president
Happy New Year! 2019 marks another pivotal year
for the World Hepatitis Alliance. Our long-time CEO,
Raquel Peck, has moved into an advisory role at
WHA; and we will be hiring her replacement in the
first quarter of the year. While it is impossible to truly
replace Raquel, we are conducting interviews this
month and hope to have the new CEO on board soon.
Our Executive Board will also see changes as we will
welcome two new board members: Rachel Halford
from the EURO region and Patricia Vélez-Möller from
the PAHO region. Our SEARO board member, RP
Shanmugam was re-elected for a second term.
One of our most exciting new initiatives will launch
in the coming weeks- our ‘Find the Missing Millions’
in-country advocacy program. This program will
support 5 WHA members from different countries
to develop and implement effective action plans to
increase testing and diagnosis rates in their countries.
Applications for this program will come out within the
next few weeks and we expect a high level of interest.
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best for a happy and healthy year and great progress
toward the elimination of viral hepatitis.
Michael Ninburg
President
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The World Hepatitis Day 2018 Global
Summary report is out now.
The report features details of the
activities undertaken across the
world which can be used as a source of
inspiration when planning your
WHD2019 activities.
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