Margaret Chan

Margaret Chan
Margaret Chan
Traditional Chinese	陳馮富珍
Simplified Chinese	陈冯富珍
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Chén-Féng Fùzhēn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	Can4 Fung4 Fu3 Zan1

Margaret Chan
OBE JP FRCP
Margaret Chan OBE JP FRCP
陳馮富珍
	Chan in 2011
7th Director-General of the World Health Organization
	In office; 9 November 2006 – 1 July 2017
Preceded by	Anders Nordström (acting)
Succeeded by	Tedros Adhanom
4th Director of Health, Hong Kong
	In office; 6 June 1994 – 20 August 2003
Preceded by	Lee Shu-Hung
Succeeded by	Lam Ping-Yan
Personal details
Born	Margaret Fung Fu-chun; 21 August 1947 (age 76); Hong Kong
Nationality	Chinese; Canadian
Spouse	David Chan
Alma mater	Northecote College of Education (Cert); University of Western Ontario (BA, MD); National University of Singapore (MS)

Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, OBE, JP, FRCP^[3] (born 21 August 1947) is a Chinese-Canadian^[1] physician, who served as the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) delegating the People's Republic of China^[4] from 2006 to 2017. Chan previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government (1994–2003) and representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza and WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases (2003–2006). In 2014, Forbes ranked her as the 30th most powerful woman in the world.^[5] In early 2018 she joined the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).^[2]

She was widely criticized for her handling of the 1997 H5N1 avian influenza outbreak and the 2003 SARS outbreak in Hong Kong, and for her frequent travels while serving as Director-General of the WHO.^[6]

^ ^a ^b Young, Ian (28 May 2013). "From Hong Kong to Canada and back: the migrants who came home from home". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Possible WHO head is Western grad". The London Free Press. 13 October 2006.
^ "Complete curriculum vitae of Dr Margaret Chan". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. Beijing, China: People's Republic of China. 2005. Archived from the original on 30 July 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
^ "Director-General: Dr Margaret Chan". Archived from the original on 14 November 2006.
^ Howard, Caroline (28 May 2014). "The World's Most Powerful Women 2014". Forbes.
^ Cheng, Maria (22 May 2017). "Health agency spends more on travel than AIDS". Associated Press. Retrieved 27 June 2017.

[canadian-1] Young, Ian (28 May 2013). "From Hong Kong to Canada and back: the migrants who came home from home". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 25 July 2013.

[husband-2] "Possible WHO head is Western grad". The London Free Press. 13 October 2006.

[3] "Complete curriculum vitae of Dr Margaret Chan". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. Beijing, China: People's Republic of China. 2005. Archived from the original on 30 July 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2014.

[4] "Director-General: Dr Margaret Chan". Archived from the original on 14 November 2006.

[5] Howard, Caroline (28 May 2014). "The World's Most Powerful Women 2014". Forbes.

[6] Cheng, Maria (22 May 2017). "Health agency spends more on travel than AIDS". Associated Press. Retrieved 27 June 2017.

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