Dr. Swarup Sarkar, director of communicable diseases, WHO was felicitated for his contribution to public health and leading the team in South-East Asia. Dr. Sarkar was presented the Award for Outstanding Public Health Achievements at a function in Geneva by the director general of the World Health Organisation WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
He completed his basic medical education in Kolkata and has experience of over 40 years in public health and communicable diseases. He worked with WHO at its headquarters in Geneva and with UNAIDS. Under his leadership, the WHO team gained many public health achievements, including elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, elimination of malaria and lymphatic filariasis in Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand & elimination of yaws in India. Under his guidance, the WHO team also made significant progress on Tuberculosis control in numerous…
