Nata menabde biography of george

Dr Nata Menabde is Executive Director of WHO Office at the United Nations, New York since May 2015.

Prior to her current role, since 2010, Nata Menabde was WHO Representative to India where she has led a large team of thousands of dedicated professionals across India supporting the governments’ efforts in tacking health and health systems challenges, such as eradication of polio and saving lives from vaccine preventable diseases, promoting universal health coverage for sustainable development, combatting TB, reversing growing trend of noncommunicable diseases, amongst others.

Preceding her assignment in India Nata Menabde was the Deputy Regional Director of WHO’s European Regional Office and, among other initiatives, has successfully led WHO’s European work on Health Systems and their relationships with health and wealth, which culminated in the adoption of the Tallinn Char