An ideal minister of health.

The ideal minister of (public) health.

s health minister of nearly six years, retired from politics at the age of 45. In retiring early, Dr Wooldridge fulfilled his own longstanding prediction that the health portfolio would be his political graveyard, and in this he shared the fate of most Australian health ministers over the past 30 years. It seems that, in Australia, there is little chance of life in politics after health and the...

"Every day I dream ..." An interview with the Rwandan Health Minister.

The Honourable Agnes Binagwaho MD PhD has been the Minister for Health of the Republic of Rwanda since 2011. With extensive professional clinical experience as a paediatrician, she seems to be the ideal Minister of Health and her achievements thus far have proved this. Just recently in 2015, the Honourable Minister was awarded the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation’s Roux Prize, the lar...

The ideal minister of health.

Who Would Be the Ideal Minister to Run the Current Health System of Iran?

In the course of progress toward achieving universal health coverage in the new term of President Rouhani, the health system of Iran will face with several challenges that have to be appropriately addressed. Sustainable financing, good governance, and comprehensive and fair health service delivery are examples of such challenges. A key issue is, therefore, who as a minister of health is qualifi...

Doctor Shoja-ad-Din Sheikholeslamzadeh and his Achievements

Doctor Shoja-ad-Din Sheikholeslamzadeh (also known as Dr. Sheikh) (1931-2014) was an outstanding orthopedic surgeon. He is credited for the establishment of the Iranian Association of Rehabilitation, Shafa Yahyaian Hospital as an Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Center, the Social Welfare Organization, Iran’s emergency dispatch center (115) and many other major projects that led to the upgrading o...