WHO expert gets “For the People’s Health” award
The
Deputy Minister spoke highly of Dr. Nicole Smith’s efforts to the cause
of protecting people’s health while she was working in Vietnam.
Dr.
Nicole Smith began her four-year term of office in Vietnam in 2007 as
a WHO advisor in infectious disease monitoring in Vietnam .
While
in Vietnam, she closely worked with international organisations in
deploying activities against flu epidemic and with the Vietnamese Health
Ministry in amending and supplementing the national action plan on
influenza pandemic prevention and control.
She also worked with
the Health Ministry in providing technical consultancy and devising
professional documents on flu type A/H1N1, shared information on
influenza pandemic in the world as well as provided technical assistance
in building the plan on the use of flu vaccine type A/H1N1 in
Vietnam./.