Plenary Session:7��Topic: Primary Health Care and NCD Control – Gaps and Challenges�
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President and CEO
RESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES
Dr.Tom Frieden
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Dr. Tom Frieden is a physician trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases, public health, and epidemiology.
He is former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and former commissioner of the New York City Health Department.
Dr. Frieden began his public health career in New York City confronting the largest outbreak of multidrug resistant tuberculosis to occur in the U.S.
He was then assigned to the World Health Organization, on loan from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he supported the Government of India to scale up a program for effective tuberculosis diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring.
Asked to return to New York City to become Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s Health Commissioner, he directed efforts to reduce smoking and other leading causes of death that increased New York City life expectancy by 3 years.
As Director of the U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Frieden oversaw the work that helped end the 2014 West Africa Ebola epidemic.
He now leads Resolve to Save Lives, an organization that partners with countries to prevent 100 million deaths from cardiovascular disease and make the world safer from epidemics.
Dr. Frieden is also Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations
Dr. Frieden is currently President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives.