--- title: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus | TIME description: Dr. Adhanom Ghebreyesus is Director-General of the World Health Organization. canonical: https://time.com/author/tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ## Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Dr. Adhanom Ghebreyesus is Director-General of the World Health Organization. ## Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus *  Mar 11, 2024 ### [Why the World Needs a Pandemic Agreement](https://time.com/6899739/covid-19-pandemic-agreement-who/) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on how we must prepare now to counter the threat of a future pandemic... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 12, 2021 ### [Why There Should Be a Moratorium on COVID-19 Booster Shots](https://time.com/6089974/who-moratorium-covid-19-vaccine-boosters/) [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 24, 2018 ### [What Must Be Done to Create a World Without Polio](https://time.com/5432508/world-polio-day-eradication-initiative-vaccine/) And make it only the second human disease to be wiped from the face of the earth [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus/","name":"Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus/"},"name":"Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus","jobTitle":null,"description":"Dr. Adhanom Ghebreyesus is Director-General of the World Health Organization.","url":"https://time.com/author/tedros-adhanom-ghebreyesus/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```