Chikwe Ihekweazu | |
|---|---|
 Chikwe Ihekweazu | |
| Assistant Director General at the World Health Organization | |
| Assumed office 1 November 2021 | |
| Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) | |
| In office 15 August 2016 – 2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Chikwe Andreas Ihekweazu Germany |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Spouse | Vivianne Ihekweazu |
| Education | UK Faculty of Public Health European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf University of Nigeria, Nsukka |
| Profession | Epidemiologist Public health physician Honorary Senior Lecturer |
Chikwe Ihekweazu // is a Nigerian epidemiologist, public health physician and the World Health Organization's Assistant Director-General for Health Emergency Intelligence and Surveillance Systems.[1][2]
Ihekweazu previously served as Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC),[3][4] the agency responsible for protecting public health and safety through the control and prevention of communicable diseases in Nigeria.[5] He was appointed to head the agency in August 2016 by President Muhammadu Buhari.[6]
Ihekweazu trained as an infectious disease epidemiologist and has worked in senior public health and leadership positions in several National Public Health Institutes, including The National Institute for Communicable Diseases South Africa (NICD), the UK's Health Protection Agency, and Germany's Robert Koch Institute (RKI).[7] He has led several short-term engagements for the World Health Organization (WHO), mainly in response to major infectious disease outbreaks around the world.[8] He was part of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).[9]
- ^ "WHO Headquarters Leadership Team".
- ^ Paul Adepoju (September 1, 2021), Nigeria CDC head to lead WHO pandemic and epidemic intelligence hub Devex.
- ^ NCDC, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. "Office of the Director General". ncdc.gov.ng. Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ "Ifedayo Adetifa Replaces Ihekweazu As NCDC Director-General". Channels Television. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ "Building Nigeria's Health Security: 10 things you may not know about NCDC". Vanguard News. 9 July 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ Organization, World Health. "Biographies of Members of, and Advisers to the 1st Meeting of the 2018 IHR Emergency Committee for Ebola Viral Disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo". WHO.INT. World Health Organization. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
- ^ "WHO Headquarters Leadership Team". www.who.int. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ "Encomiums as NCDC boss, Ihekweazu gets WHO job". 1 September 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
- ^ Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) | https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf.