Sarah England :Biography

 

Name: Sarah England

Title: Technical Officer, Tobacco Control

Organization: World Health Organization, China Representative Office.

Email:  englands@wpro.who.int

Address:  401, Dongwai Diplomatic Office Building 23, Dongzhimenwai Dajie, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100600

Phone Number: +86 10 653 271 91 ext 81279

 

Dr. Sarah England has devoted herself to solving some of the world's most pressing public health problems from environmental degradation to vaccines for childhood diseases. With an Oxford PhD in medical science, Sarah did her post-doctoral work in Asia, quickly becoming involved with several international organizations. She spent the 90's in Vietnam working on biodiversity and other environmental projects, while at the same time completing her SFU Executive MBA in 1997. Her global experience and keen interest in environmental health issues soon drew the attention of the World Health Organization (WHO), headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. She joined WHO as an Environmental Health Adviser for Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and began focusing on global vaccination projects in 1999. One of her first assignments was to build consensus among stakeholders on the structure and function of a billion dollar global fund to finance the vaccination of children in resource-poor countries. Six months later, Sarah presented the proposed structure in Seattle to Bill Gates Senior, and the new Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization successfully secured a $750 million donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Sarah has worked with the WHO Stop TB Partnership Secretariat in Switzerland, bringing global partners together to formulate and implement shared strategies and plans to eliminate TB. She recently joined as the Technical Officer for Tobacco control at the WHO China Representative Office.