- Zsuzsanna Jakab
Zsuzsanna Jakab (dr. Jakab Ferencné) (born
17 May ,1951 ) is, since March 2005 the Hungarian head of the newly formedEuropean Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) located inStockholm (Solna Municipality ),Sweden . She is Europe's top health official, taking on the task of defending theEuropean Union againstinfectious disease s.Education
From 1969 to 1974 she obtained a Master’s Degree in political sciences at the Eötvös Lóránd University of Sciences in
Budapest . From 1977 until 1979 she studied at the University of Political Sciences in Budapest, where she obtained a Postgraduate university degree in macroeconomics, political sciences, and history of religions. In 1998 and1999 she studied public health and epidemiology (two courses) at the Nordic School of Public Health inGöteborg ,Sweden . In 2002 - 2003 she studied at the National Institute of Public Administration and Management (Hungary), where she obtained a postgraduate degree inpublic administration andmanagement .Career
From December 1975 until December 1991 she worked for the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in Hungary. From
17 December 1991 until September 2002, she worked for theWorld Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, where she was in charge of the Administration and Management Support. Before she became head of the ECDC, she was Secretary of State inHungary ’s Ministry of Health, Social and Family Affairs. She was responsible for overseeing Hungary’s implementation and management of the EU integration, regarding health policies. Zsuzsanna Jakab was the first national from one of the Member States that joined theEuropean Union on1 May 2004 to become the head of an agency of the European Union.ee also
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Surgeon General of the United States ource
* [http://www.ecdc.eu.int/About_us/Executice_Committee.html ECDC Executice Committee]
* [http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/04/297&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en Zsuzsanna Jakab]
* [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2004_2009/documents/dv/zsuzsanna_jakab_cv_/zsuzsanna_jakab_cv_en.pdf CV]
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