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Also Known As WHO • Organisation Mondiale de la Santé
Date 1948 - present
Headquarters Geneva
Areas Of Involvement public health
Related People Hiroshi Nakajima • Margaret Chan • Tedros Adhanom • Zsuzsanna Jakab • Jim Yong Kim • Gro Harlem Brundtland • Sune K. Bergström

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Vaccination program led by the World Health Organization
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last known case of smallpox
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