Shigeru Omi

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Shigeru Omi

Shigeru Omi (born June 11, 1949) is the President of the Japan Community Health Care Organization. He previously served as Regional Director of the Western Pacific Regional Office for the World Health Organization.[1] He has been a member of the World Health Organization Executive Board since 2013.[2]

Career[]

at the session of the Executive Board, World Health Organization (January, 2011)

During his tenure with the World Health Organization, he is credited with the eradication of polio in the 37 countries in the Western Pacific Region in 2000 as part of the Regional Polio Eradication Initiative.[2][3] Also, he worked to fight both SARS and avian flu.[4]

In 2006, Omi was a candidate for Director-General of the WHO but Margaret Chan was appointed instead. Between 2008 and 2009, he was part of a High-Level Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems, which had been launched to help strengthen health systems in the 49 poorest countries in the world and was chaired by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and World Bank president Robert Zoellick.[5]

From 2009 until 2012, Omi taught public health at Jichi Medical University in Japan. He was the President of the 66th World Health Assembly in 2013.[6] In 2016, he was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to the Global Health Crises Task Force, jointly chaired by Jan Eliasson, Jim Yong Kim, Margaret Chan and Helen Clark.[6]

In February 2020, Omi was appointed vice chair of a government panel of experts on COVID-19 pandemic in Japan,[7] and was a top advisor for the 2020 Summer Olympics organisation committee.[8]

On 3 June, he stated that "it's not normal to host the games where there's a pandemic" ("パンデミックの所でやるのは普通ではない").[9] He also testified at a parliamentary committee that "if they were to be held during a pandemic, it is the organizers' responsibility to scale them down as much as possible and strengthen the management system",[10] and on 19 June warned that due to a possible spike in infections in Tokyo, the games should be hosted without any kind of public.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Crampton, Thomas (23 February 2005). "World bird-flu risk is 'gravest possible'". New York Times. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Note to Correspondents: Secretary-General Appoints Global Health Crises Task Force". United Nations. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  3. ^ "Dr. Shigeru Omi: Leading International Health Care Authority". The World's Greatest Japanese. 19 February 2008. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
  4. ^ Glusker, A. (2006). "Who will lead WHO?". BMJ : British Medical Journal. 333 (7575): 938. doi:10.1136/bmj.333.7575.938. PMC 1633806.
  5. ^ More money for health, and more health for the money World Health Organization, 2009.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Note to Correspondents: Secretary-General Appoints Global Health Crises Task Force Secretary-General of the United Nations, press release of 29 June 2016
  7. ^ 新型コロナウイルス感染症対策専門家会議の開催について (On the Opening of the First Novel Coronavirus Expert Meeting) (PDF). Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet. 14 February 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Wade, Stephen; Yamaguchi, Mari (18 June 2021). "Top medical adviser says 'no fans' safest for Tokyo Olympics". www.cbc.ca. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  9. ^ "尾身氏「普通はない」発言、自民幹部反発「言葉過ぎる」：朝日新聞デジタル". 朝日新聞デジタル (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  10. ^ NEWS, KYODO. "Japan's top COVID adviser says "not normal" for Olympics to be held". Kyodo News+. Retrieved 2021-06-08.


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