
How China's high-tech boom can help global health
Earlier this year at the World Economic Forum, President Xi Jinping delivered a hearty defence of globalisation. To anyone paying attention during the last several decades this should hav...
Dr Bernhard Schwartländer is WHO Representative in China.
Before joining WHO in China, he served as Director for Evidence, Policy and Innovation at UNAIDS headquarters in Geneva and as the United Nations Country Coordinator on AIDS in Beijing, China.
Prior to these assignments, Dr Schwartländer held a number of senior international positions including as the Director for Performance Evaluation and Policy at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Director of the World Health Organization’s HIV Department, and as the Director of Evaluation and Strategic Information at UNAIDS.