enhance the implementation of cancer control since having
an effective national cancer plan will help achieve the
overarching NCD target of 25 % reduction of NCD mortality
by 2025. l
Dr Andreas Ullrich MD, MPH is Medical Officer cancer control,
which is focal point for Cancer Control with the World Health
Organization (WHO) at WHO Headquarters in Geneva and
liaison officer WHO with the International Agency for Research
on Cancer.
Dr Ullrich graduated in Medicine from the University of
Munich, Germany, specialising in internal medicine, and then
graduated in Public Health at the Bielefeld School of Public
Health, Germany where he then worked as assistant professor in
cancer epidemiology.
He joined WHO in 2001, working on its cancer control
programme which is providing global guidance to WHO
Member States in cancer control planning and capacity
building. He has since developed a WHO organization-wide
cancer prevention and control network which is engaging all
relevant technical programmes at headquarters and regional
Offices in responding to the needs of cancer control in low- and
middle-income countries. The translation of the results of
cancer research into public health practice is Dr Ullrich's focus
as liaison officer WHO IARC, WHO's cancer research institute in
Lyon, France. Dr Ullrich's current major focus is supporting
WHO member states in developing and monitoring cancer
programmes under the NCD framework and in implementing
the 2014-2020 WHO NCD Action Plan in close collaboration
with the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), ACS,
the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and professional
organizations in cancer treatment (ESMO and ASCO).
Shambhu Acharya, PhD (Public Health) is currently Director ad
interim of the Department of Country Cooperation and
Collaboration within the United Nations System which is
primarily responsible for developing tools, monitoring and
supporting the formulation of country cooperation strategies.
Dr Acharya graduated with PhD in Health Policy and
Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, USA. He worked for a year with the World Bank in
Washington DC, and subsequently in Bangladesh.
He joined WHO in 1992 as Programme Manager at WHO
Country Office in Bangladesh where he was responsible for
managing large World Bank funded projects, including one on
the prevention and control of cancer. He was later reassigned to
WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia as Regional Advisor,
National Health Systems and Policies. Subsequently he was
reassigned to WHO/HQ as Technical Officer in partnership for
health sector development initiative in 1999. Since then, Dr
Acharya has been in HQ working in different capacity in the
areas of health system, country cooperation and collaboration
with UN and other partners.
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