Zsuzsanna jakab biography of william

Zsuzsanna Jakab (Jakab Ferencné; born 17 May ) is a Hungarian public health expert who has served as Deputy Director General of the World Health Organization from 7 March to 21 April A native of Hungary, she has held a number of high-profile national and international public health policy positions in the last three decades.

Before being appointed Deputy Director, Jakab was Director of the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen, Denmark. Before she was elected Regional Director, Jakab served as the founding Director of the European Union's European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in Stockholm, Sweden between and

Education

Jakab holds a master's degree from the Faculty of Humanities of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest; a postgraduate degree from the University of Political Sciences, Budapest; a diploma in public health from the Nordic College for Public Health in Gothenburg, Sweden; and a postgraduate di