Michael J. Ryan (doctor)
Michael Ryan | |
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Ryan speaking at ESCAIDE 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Deputy Director General of World Health Organization | |
| Assumed office 1 April 2024 | |
| Director-General | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Michael Joseph Ryan 1965 (age 59–60) Sligo, Ireland |
| Education | NUI Galway University College Dublin Health Protection Agency |
| Occupation | Doctor and Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme (WHO) |
Michael Joseph Ryan (born 1965) is an Irish epidemiologist and former trauma surgeon, specialising in infectious disease and public health. He is executive director of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Programme, leading the team responsible for the international containment and treatment of COVID-19. Ryan has held leadership positions and has worked on various outbreak response teams in the field to eradicate the spread of diseases including bacillary dysentery, cholera, Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever, Ebola, Marburg virus disease, measles, meningitis, relapsing fever, Rift Valley fever, SARS, and Shigellosis.