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>>On February 25, 1999, Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director General of WHO,
>>appointed Dr. Pamela Hartigan as WHO's Director of Health Promotion.  Dr.
>>Hartigan, of Ecuadorian origin, is a graduate of Georgetown University's
>>School of Foreign Service, has a Masters in Economics from the Institut
>>d'Etudes Européenes at the University of Brussels, and Masters in Education
>>from The American University in Washington D.C., and a Ph.D. in Behavioral
>>Psychology from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
>>
>>Dr. Hartigan began her career as an economist at the World Bank, worked
>>extensively in education and curriculum development with a focus on the
>>needs of the immigrant Hispanic community in Washington, D.C.   In that
>>capacity, she worked with Hispanic community-based organizations, developing
>>and carrying out operational research to improve programs designed to
>>respond to the needs of  adolescents and their newly arrived migrant
>>parents.
>>She began her career with WHO in 1988 at the Pan American Health
>>Organization (PAHO), regional office of WHO in the Americas, in the area of
>>HIV/AIDS.   In that capacity,  she fostered close linkages with NGOs working
>>in HIV/AIDS prevention and control at the community and national levels in
>>PAHO's member countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.  In 1990 she was
>>appointed by PAHO's Director to spearhead an initiative to foster
>>collaboration between NGOs working in health in this region, and
>>governmental organizations.  As a result,  every PAHO unit now works closely
>>with local and national NGOs, ensuring that projects and programs are
>>jointly designed and implemented by governmental and non-governmental
>>organizations.  In 1994, Dr. Hartigan was requested by PAHO's Director to
>>take over the leadership of the Women, Health and Development Program in the
>>Organization.  Dr. Hartigan and her team developed a conceptual and
>>practical framework to enable gender to be mainstreamed throughout the
>>Organization and in the countries, mobilized over US$6 million to support
>>community based initiatives to address violence against women, and secured
>>funds to conduct research in the area of gender and quality of care.
>>
>>In 1997, Dr. Hartigan was selected by the Special Programme for Research and
>>Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) of the World Bank, UNDP and WHO, as
>>Programme Manager and Manager of the Task Force on Gender-Sensitive
>>Interventions.  After 8 months in TDR, Dr. Hartigan also became team leader
>>of TDR's area of Applied Field Research.
>>
>>
>>
>

 Une tres bonne journee.

 Michel O'Neill, Ph.D.

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