Sally Edwards

Ms. Sally Edwards is the Coordinator at WHO Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific. She started working at the World Health Organization in 2003 and has held several positions in various duty stations, including Geneva, El Paso Texas, Washington DC, Haiti, Barbados, Brazzaville and Panama. She has covered a range of topics including early warning systems for heatwaves, droughts, and climate sensitive diseases, the initiative on promoting an environmentally responsible and resilient health sector, sustainable procurement, air pollution, health care waste management, and supporting countries of the Region in the area of Climate Change and Health. She co-developed the technical notes on environmental public Health for COVID-19 response, and has a lot of experience in emergency preparedness and response. She is currently based in Manila coordinating the regional work on Climate-resilient and environmentally sustainable health systems.