Senior Policy Advisor, UN System Influenza Coordination (UNSIC)

Chadia Wannous is the Senior Policy Advisor of the UN System Coordinator for Avian and Pandemic Influenza Dr. David Nabarro. She is a public health professional with a doctorate degree in International Health and Development. She has more than twenty years of experience working in the public health filed in a number of countries in the Middle East, South East Asia, the Caribbean, and North America. Prior to her current position in Geneva, and since 2006 she has been working mainly on Avian and Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response. First as a Technical Officer for WHO Regional Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response sub-unit in Bangkok, and as a Senior Advisor for the UN Resident Coordinator in Egypt and then as the UN System Influenza Coordination (UNSIC) Regional Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa region.