The five candidates to be considered by WHO's Executive Board for the post of Director-General have now been announced. The Board will vote on 28 January to choose one candidate, who will be formally elected by the World Health Assembly in May. The candidates are as listed below, with links to material published by The Lancet, setting out their positions on WHO and some of the issues it faces.
Dr Pascoal Mocumbi, Prime Minister and former Health Minister of Mozambique. An additional statement of his vision for WHO is available here
Dr Peter Piot, head of UNAIDS, from Belgium. A further statement on priorities and strategies is available as a PDF file here.
Dr Jong Wook Lee, head of WHO's STOP TB campaign, from South Korea. His manifesto is available as a PDF file here.
Professor Ismail Sallam, former Egyptian Health and Population Minister.
Dr Julio Frenk Mora, Mexico's health minister and former WHO official.
As forecast by aidsmap here, the candidates from Lebanon and the Cook Islands were not shortlisted.