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[Jong Wook Lee] received his medical degree from Seoul National University. He received a master's degree in epidemiology and public health in 1981 from the University of Hawaii School of Public Health, where he focused on leprosy work. After he joined WHO in 1983, Lee investigated leprosy in the South Pacific and worked in the agency's regional office in Manila before moving to the Geneva headquarters in 1994 to direct both its vaccines program and its program to stop tuberculosis. Specialists credited Lee for success in further controlling tuberculosis, in part by forming an alliance among 250 countries and nongovernmental organizations. As director-general, Lee said, a major goal would be to develop programs with a greater scientific basis and more accountability

Dr. Jong Wook Lee, a South Korean expert on tuberculosis and vaccines who trained in the United States, was selected Tuesday to head the World Health Organization. Lee has a reputation for being a skilled administrator and a quick study who has learned the inner workings of WHO, a United Nations subagency in Geneva, in his 19 years there. He was nominated as the organization's new director- general by a vote of the 32 members of the organization that make up its executive board. Final election, which is considered a formality, is expected in May, when the entire membership meets. Lee, 57, is believed to be the first Korean to head an international agency. He was selected over Dr. Peter Piot, a Belgian, who is director of the United Nations AIDS program, on the seventh ballot

Dr. Jong Wook Lee, a South Korean epidemiologist and expert on vaccines, tuberculosis and diseases associated with poverty, was selected yesterday to head the World Health Organization. After he joined the W.H.O. in 1983, Dr. Lee investigated leprosy in the South Pacific and worked in the agency's regional office in Manila before moving to Geneva in 1994 to direct its vaccines program, including the effort to eliminate polio, and its program to stop tuberculosis. Dr. Jong Wook Lee, an expert on vaccines, tuberculosis and diseases associated with poverty, has worked for the W.H.O. for 19 years. (Agence France-Presse)

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is giving $200 million to identify critical questions about the leading causes of death in developing countries and to create an international competition for scientists to solve them. The aim is to save many of the millions of lives lost each year to the world's most pressing health problems, like malaria, tuberculosis and nutritional deficiencies, [Gates] said in announcing the grant Sunday at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. In speaking there, Gates, founder of Microsoft, underscored the importance of poor health as a handicap to improving the economies of developing countries. In creating the grant, Gates said he was inspired by the success of a German, David Hilbert, who in 1900 challenged his fellow mathematicians to solve 23 problems over the following century

The aim is to save many of the millions of lives lost each year to malaria, tuberculosis, malnutrition and other pressing health problems, Mr. [Gates] said in announcing the grant yesterday at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. In speaking there, Mr. Gates, the founder of Microsoft, underscored the effects of poor health in stifling the economies of developing countries. In creating the grant, Mr. Gates said he had been inspired by the success of a German, David Hilbert, who challenged his fellow mathematicians in 1900 to solve 23 problems over the next century. Dr. Hilbert's challenge led to mathematical breakthroughs, opened up fields of study and contributed to the development of computers. Mr. Gates said he hoped ''to draw in a lot of talent that hasn't been aware of what could make a huge difference in terms of world health.'' For example, he said, ''even scientists who work in different realms will now see that things like preventing mosquitoes from being a delivery vector'' for diseases like malaria, dengue and West Nile fever ''would be a phenomenal thing.''

The aim is to save many of the millions of lives lost each year to malaria, tuberculosis, malnutrition and other pressing health problems, Bill Gates said in announcing the grant yesterday at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. In speaking there, Gates, the founder of Microsoft, underscored the effects of poor health in stifling the economies of developing countries. Gates said he hoped 'to draw in a lot of talent that hasn't been aware of what could make a huge difference in terms of world health.' For example, he said, 'even scientists who work in different realms will now see that things like preventing mosquitoes from being a delivery vector' for diseases like malaria, dengue and West Nile fever 'would be a phenomenal thing.' 1 PIC; Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said he hopes a $200 million grant will help eliminate many causes of death in poorer nations.; Credit: Michel Euler / Associated Press