Change in Leadership for the WHO Europe

Mrs Zsuzsanna Jakab have been nominated as the WHO Regional Director for Europe. This means that the ECDC needs a new Director for European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) by February 2010. Even if processess like this is slow the European Commission has already started looking for a new ECDC Director, since Mrs Jakabs had a 5 years manadate due to expire in 2010. In the European Commission that is the rule - all senior officials have to move position every 5 years.