Lecture on Global Effort in Improving Maternal & Child Health by Dr Mikael Ostergren, former WHO Program Manager

Dr Mikael Ostergren has been Program Manager for the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health, World Health Organization, Geneva. He has more than 30 years of international public health experience, including postings in Zambia as a District Medical Officer, and in Uganda for WHO attached to the Ministry of Health. He worked 11 years in the WHO European regional office with focus on Central Asia and Eastern Europe as Regional Adviser child and adolescent health and later head of the Family and Community Health Section. He is a medical doctor (Copenhagen University) with postgraduate training in Health Services Management (MSc, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and diploma in Tropical Medicine (Karolinska Institute, Sweden).