Kidong Park PhD

Dr. Kidong Park assumed the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative to Viet Nam on 1 September 2017. Dr. Park has extensive experience in global health, health policy and management, and strategic planning and evaluation. His international career in public health spans from high-level representative roles to technical work on communicable disease control and health system strengthening.

Dr. Park first joined WHO in 2006 working with the Global Influenza Programme. After three years at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Dr. Park moved to the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific. As the head of the Country Support Unit, he led the development and implementation of a new regional approach to WHO country cooperation strategies, the Organization's medium-term strategic vision for its cooperation with the Member States. He also played a key role in coordinating and implementing WHO reform initiatives in the Region.

Before joining the Government, Dr. Park participated in a WHO-funded District Health System demonstration project in Yonchon County, the Republic of Korea from 1988 to 1991. Born in the city of Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, Dr. Park is a medical doctor and holds a Masters's and Ph.D. in Health Policy and Medicine from Seoul National University College of Medicine.