Keiji Fukuda Speaker and Booking Agent Information

Professor Keiji Fukuda joined the School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong in December 2016 and became the School Director in 2017. Under Professor Fukuda, the School has pioneered a holistic and multi-sectoral undergraduate programme on public health and development, established new research directions such as antimicrobial resistance and fostered collaborations and initiatives aimed at developing the next generation of health leadership.

Previously (2005 – 2016), he worked at the World Health Organization (WHO) in several capacities including Assistant Director-General for Health Security, Special Adviser to the Director-General on Pandemic Influenza and then as Special Adviser for Antimicrobial Resistance and as Director of the Global Influenza Programme. He led global approaches to health security including the development and adoption of the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework and implementation of the International Health Regulations as well as responses to events such as the emergence of influenza H5N1 and H7N9, the 2009 Pandemic influenza, MERS, Ebola and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). He was central to the international health diplomacy initiatives that resulted in the 2016 historic Heads of State level meeting at the United Nations (UN) and a UN resolution on AMR. Professor Fukuda was often WHO’s main global media spokesperson.

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