概要
Dr Ivanov is leading the WHO Global Programme for Occupational and Workplace Health, responsible for setting global policies, norms and standards in occupational health, monitoring trends and work-related health impacts, coordinating WHO’s technical work on health at the workplace, and providing technical assistance to countries for strengthening policies, institutions and services to protecting and promoting the health of workers. Dr Ivanov is a medical doctor with post graduate training in occupational health (MPH) and sociology of health and environment (PhD). In the past, he has worked in the public health system and the ministry of health of his native country, Bulgaria, at the Institute of International Health, Michigan State University and in the WHO Regional Office for Europe.