第168场兴泉全球健康讲座
No. 168 Aegon-Industrial Global Health Seminar Series

Abstract:

After 75 years of world vicissitudes, the World Health Organization (WHO) is facing a more complex global political and economic landscape, together with an alarming global health environment. Particularly, the COVID-19 pandemic has accentuated the fundamentality of global health governance and WHO reform in the future. To achieve global sustainable development goals in health, improve the social, economic, and political factors that affect health issues, and enhance human health and well-being, the world needs a more powerful and efficient WHO. In response to this, how should WHO move beyond its current internal and external problems, and guide the global community to better cope with new global health challenges?

Speaker Bio: 

Dr Minghui Ren was born in October 1964 in Shanghai. He received his MD, MPH and PHD from Xi’an Medical University, Harvard School of Public Health and Peking University, respectively. 

Since 1987, Dr Ren served at the Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as Deputy Division Director for Department of Policies and Regulations, and then as Division Director of the General Administrative Office. He participated in the experiment and evaluation of China’s medical and health reform, as well as document drafting.

Since 2001, Dr Ren’s work in China focused more on international health cooperation. He worked at the Department of International Cooperation (Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office) at the Ministry of Health as Deputy Director and Director. After that, he served at the National Health and Family Planning Commission as Director General for International Cooperation (Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office). Dr Ren was responsible for multilateral and bilateral health cooperation and attended important global negotiations and discussions on health issues. His work aimed to push forward the establishment and development of national strategy and discipline on global health in China.

For his contribution to international health collaboration, Dr Ren received an honorary award by the Russian Federation, and was awarded the “Ordre National du Mérite” by France.

From January 2016 to November 2022, Dr. Ren served at WHO headquarters first as Assistant Director-General (ADG) for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, and later as ADG for Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control, and most recently as ADG for Universal Health Coverage/Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases.