Pakistan’s Sania Eliminated In WHO Leadership Race
Dr Sania Nishtar is the first Pakistani candidate to have gone so far in the race to run the World Health Organisation
Sania Nishtar, Pakistan’s candidate in the run to become the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) was eliminated as Ethiopian politician Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected to the key position.
Sania Nishtar is Pakistan’s first female cardiologist and served as Pakistan’s interim health minister during the 2013 elections. The Government of Pakistan had submitted the nomination Sania as the candidate for WHO Director-General 2017. Sania had promised to “deliver constructive and sustainable change” to the WHO; terming it a “new deal for health,” in her speech in Geneva.
Pakistan had pumped up its campaign to get Sania elected.
Sania tweeted last night thanking her supporters after former Ethiopian minister Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was elected to the key post.
Nishtar is the author of six books and more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and op-eds. She is the recipient of Pakistan’s Sitara e-Imtiaz, a presidential award, the European Societies Population Science Award, and many accolades of the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge and the American Biographical Center.
Sania Nishtar holds a Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and a Ph.D. from Kings College, London.
Several people from Pakistan and abroad reacted on Twitter after the news of Sania’s elimination.
