Dr. Mikiko Kanda is a Technical Lead for the Healthy Ageing Unit, Division of Healthy Environments and Populations in the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WHO-WPRO) since March 2023.
Working with internal and external stakeholders, she is leading technical support and advocacy to promote health and social system transformation and early action to the Member States in the region in addressing the needs of an ageing population.
Before WHO - WPRO, she worked for the UNAIDS Country Office for Myanmar and the WHO Regional Office for Southeast Asia in various technical capacities related to Strategic Information, Health Systems, Human Resources for Health and Healthy Ageing.