Hiroshi Nakajima
| Hiroshi Nakajima | |
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| 中嶋 宏 | |
Nakajima in 1995
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| Director General of the World Health Organization | |
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In office 1988–1998 |
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| Secretary General |
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1982–1991) Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1992–1996) Kofi Annan (1997–1998) |
| Preceded by | Halfdan T. Mahler |
| Succeeded by | Gro Harlem Brundtland |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 16, 1928 Chiba, Japan |
| Died | January 26, 2013 (aged 84) Poitiers, France |
| Nationality |
 Japanese
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| Alma mater |
Tokyo Medical University International University of Health and Welfare |
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Hiroshi Nakajima (中嶋 宏 Nakajima Hiroshi?, May 16, 1928 – January 26, 2013) was a Japanese doctor known chiefly for his tenure as Director-General of the World Health Organization.
He was born in Chiba, Japan, on 16 May 1928.
In 1955 Nakajima received his M.D. from Tokyo Medical University, Japan. He then studied in Paris.
At some point after 1967, he obtained a PhD in medical sciences in Japan.
From 1956 or 1958 to 1967 Nakajima worked at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research doing medical and pharmaceutical research. After his stay in France, he returned to Japan and became research director of Nippon Roche, a Japanese subsidiary of Hoffmann-La Roche.
Nakajima joined WHO in 1974 in the position of Scientist, Drug Evaluation and Monitoring. In 1976, he became Chief of the WHO Drug Policies and Management Unit. It was in this position that he played a key role in developing the concept of essential drugs, as Secretary of the first Expert Committee on the subject.
In 1978 or 1979, the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific nominated and elected Nakajima as Regional Director, an office he held for two consecutive terms until 1988 when he was elected Director-General of WHO.
In January 1988 the WHO executive board selected Nakajima to become Director-General in a 17-to-14 vote over Carlyle Guerra de Macedo of Brazil.
During his leadership at WHO he notoriously had a conflict with then head of the WHO's Global Programme on AIDS (GPA), Jonathan Mann, which resulted in Mann's resignation. Mann thought Nakajima was not aggressive enough in his approach against AIDS. Much of the success of the Global Programme on AIDS was attributed to Mann, who had also had autonomy over the Global Programme on AIDS, which Nakajima wanted to take away. Nakajima also limited Mann's budget and travel. Following Mann's resignation, the number of GPA staff dropped from more than 250 to four. This conflict and its impact on WHO's AIDS efforts has been documented as a part of the PBS Frontline documentary "The age of AIDS".
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