Tedros Adhanom
| Tedros Adhanom | |
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| ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም | |
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| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 29 November 2012 – 1 November 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Hailemariam Desalegn |
| Preceded by | Berhane Gebre-Christos (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Workneh Gebeyehu |
| Minister of Health | |
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In office 12 October 2005 – 29 November 2012 |
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| Prime Minister |
Meles Zenawi Hailemariam Desalegn |
| Preceded by | Kebede Tadesse |
| Succeeded by | Kesetebirhan Admasu |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1965 (age 51–52) Asmara, Eritrea |
| Political party | Tigrayan People's Liberation Front |
| Other political affiliations |
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front |
| Alma mater |
University of Asmara University of London University of Nottingham |
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Ge'ez: ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ) (born 1965) is an Ethiopian politician, academic, public health authority who served in the government of Ethiopia as Minister of Health from 2005 to 2012 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2016.
Tedros joined the Ministry of Health in 1986, after graduating from the University of Asmara. An internationally recognized malaria researcher, as Minister of Health, Tedros received praise for a number of innovative and system-wide health reforms that substantially improved access to health services and key outcomes. Amongst them were hiring and training roughly 40,000 female health extension workers, cutting infant mortality from 123 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2006 to 88 in 2011, and increasing the hiring of health cadres including medical doctors and midwives. In July 2009, he was elected Board Chair of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for a 2-year term.
In November 2012, Tedros was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs by Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. In January 2016 the twenty Sixth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union endorsed his candidature for the next election of the Director General of the World Health Organisation as a sole African candidate.
Tedros was born in 1965 in Asmara. As a child, he recalls being "fully cognisant of the needless suffering and deaths" caused by malaria. In 1986 he received his Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Biology from the University of Asmara, and joined the Ministry of Health of the Derg as a junior public health expert.
After the fall of Mengistu Haile Mariam, Tedros returned to university to pursue a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Immunology of Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He subsequently received a Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in Community Health from the University of Nottingham in 2000, with his doctoral dissertation being "The effects of dams on malaria transmission in Tigray Region, northern Ethiopia, and appropriate control measures"
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