Since September 2017, Aylward has been Senior Advisor to the Director-General of the World Health Organization.
20 Facts About Bruce Aylward
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Bruce Aylward is part of the implementation of the WHO's COVAX Facility.
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Bruce Aylward has past experience in the areas of polio eradication, Zika virus, and Ebola.
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Bruce Aylward has a certificate in tropical medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Bruce Aylward received a MPH FROM the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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In 1992, Bruce Aylward joined the World Health Organization and worked for eight years in immunization, communicable disease control and polio eradication in the Middle East, Western Pacific, Europe, North Africa and Central and South East Asia.
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Bruce Aylward led the Global Polio Eradication Initiative partnership from 1998 to 2004, where he oversaw the deployment of more than 6000 field personnel, developed new tools and vaccines and reduced the number of polio endemic countries to two.
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Bruce Aylward rose to prominence as the Assistant Director General of the WHO Polio and Emergencies Cluster.
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Bruce Aylward was appointed "Special Representative of the Director-General for the Ebola Response".
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Bruce Aylward has spoken extensively on the subject, for example at TEDx, where one of his speeches had garnered over 1,000,000 views as of 2020.
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Bruce Aylward led the World Health Organization's team during the COVID-19 pandemic in China.
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Bruce Aylward opined that the key to reduction of transmission of the disease is "isolation, contact tracing and testing".
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Bruce Aylward was appointed co-lead of the WHO-China Joint Mission on COVID-19,.
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Bruce Aylward served as one of the Assistant Directors-General of the World Health Organization.
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On March 28,2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bruce Aylward was interviewed in The Pulse, a current affairs programme from Radio Television Hong Kong.
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Bruce Aylward appeared to dodge the question, then when asked if he was still on the line, claimed that he did not hear the question, blaming internet connection issues.
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Tong offered to repeat the question, but was interrupted by Bruce Aylward, who suggested she move on.
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Tong repeated the question, at which point Bruce Aylward terminated the call.
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When called back, Bruce Aylward was asked to "comment a bit on how Taiwan has done so far," to which he answered, "We have already talked about China".
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In February 2020, Bruce Aylward, accused of being under China's influence, led a WHO delegation to Wuhan over the coronavirus crisis.