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WHO has a country office in nearly every developing country, usually located close to the Ministry of Health. Staff in these offices need to do much more to help ministries of health strengthen their national health plans and strategies and then negotiate with development partners to support these priorities and follow these plans.
Margaret Chan
Health
Country
National
Every
Negotiate
Located
Ministry
Follow
More
Developing
Support
Development
Partners
Priorities
Close
Office
Offices
Staff
Then
Much
Plans
Help
Who
Strategies
Nearly
Strengthen
Need
What amazes me most is that the media and I have fostered a close relationship.
Margaret Chan
Me
Relationship
Most
Amazes
Close
Close Relationship
Fostered
Media
New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.
Margaret Chan
Sad
Health
You
People
Anxiety
Cause
Bird
Flu
Tough
Community
Difficult
Worried
Out
Carry
Must
Some
Feel
Maintain
New
Like
Affects
Very
Get
Trying
Diseases
Your
Cool
Moments
Even
Extent
For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.
Margaret Chan
Challenges
People
Care
Pandemic
Our
Worry
Severity
Seek
Understand
Greatest
Moderate
Urgent
Helping
Helping People
Need
Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.
Margaret Chan
Beautiful
Visit
Safe
Well
Mexico
Gracious
Place
If the country has invested in the training of doctors or nurses or midwives for that matter, people are beginning to say, 'Should we not ask them to serve a number of years in the country who invested in their training?' I think this is now coming to be an interesting discussion.
Margaret Chan
People
Training
Matter
Country
Doctors
Beginning
Think
Nurses
Say
Invested
Coming
Years
Discussion
Interesting
Them
Ask
Should
Who
Now
Serve
Number
The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to be a wife, and to be a mother, and also to be a career woman. The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.
Margaret Chan
Woman
Women
Mother
Opportunity
Wife
Daughter
Society
Tremendous
Way
Given
Look
Also
Understand
Roles
Really
Means
Speaking
Multiple
Asset
Play
Career
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.
Margaret Chan
Time
People
World
Calamities
Become
We Cannot
Crisis
Allow
Global
Loss
Cures
Essential
Cannot
Next
Many
Multiple
Millions
Millions Of People
I have a reputation for being a straight-talker.
Margaret Chan
Reputation
Being
Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.
Margaret Chan
Training
Country
Doctors
Important
Every
Nurses
Say
System
Would
Would-Be
Detect
Able
Proper
Unusual
Surveillance
Disease
Diseases
Experiences
Patterns
Function
Why
When WHO works with the private sector, the Organization takes all possible measures to ensure its work to develop policy and guidelines is protected from industry influence.
Margaret Chan
Work
Organization
Guidelines
Ensure
Sector
Possible
Develop
Takes
Protected
Industry
Policy
Private
Private Sector
Influence
Measures
Who
Works
Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.
Margaret Chan
Few
Dimensions
Carry
Would
Temperature
Parasites
Examples
Directly
Call
Because
Climate
Malaria
Diseases
Just
Influence
Influencing
Either
Them
Epidemic
Many
Including
Humidity
Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.
Martin Yan
Great
Country
Great Country
Because
America
Stand
United
Why
Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.
Martin Yan
Culture
World
Valuable
Tremendously
Virtues
General
Only
Also
Lot
Chinese
Chinese Culture
Us
First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.
Martin Yan
Great
First
Claim
First Of All
Chef
Really
Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.
Martin Yan
You
Business
Father
Farm
Carry
Would
Brought
Kitchen
Like
Most
Likely
Chef
Becoming
Were
Up
Ended
Just
Your
Farmer
At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.
Martin Yan
Made
Living
Hong Kong
Restaurant
Kong
Leaving
Arrived
After
China
Working
Thirteen
Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.
Martin Yan
You
Money
Become
Think
Never
Know
Well
Make
Because
Lot
Get
Successful
Profession
I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.
Martin Yan
Teacher
Myself
Entertainment
Business
Cooking
Considered
Entertainment Business
Never
Part
Celebrity
Even
Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables.
Martin Yan
You
Vegetables
Will
Kids
Eat
Touch
Never
Because
Cuisine
Western
Normally
Separate
Meat
Serve
The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.
Martin Yan
Me
Never
Excited
Praises
Applause
I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.
Martin Yan
Culture
Community
Only
Also
Represent
While
Large
Helping
Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back.
Martin Yan
Positive
People
Better
Try
Some People
Society
Back
Our
Resources
Some
Give
Something
Never
Most
Contribute
May
Anything
Us
Even
Drain
Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.
Martin Yan
You
Age
Will
Past
Say
Able
Shake
Never
Come
Accent
Understand
America
Eighteen
Anyone
Your
The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.
Martin Yan
Hope
Problem
Hong Kong
More
Taiwanese
Never
Divisions
Put
Between
Kong
Lot
Up
The Problem With
Natives
Chinese
Really
United
I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.
Martin Yan
Yourself
Free
Think
Constraint
More
Hindrance
Than
Just
Being
Famous
Being Famous
Letting
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