Arata Kochi
Japanese physician and public health expert / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Arata Kochi (古知 新, Kochi Arata, born 1948 or 1949)[1] is a Japanese physician and public health expert, who is the former director of the World Health Organization's malaria program. He had previously been director of WHO's tuberculosis programs for ten years. While at WHO, Dr. Kochi became known for developing—and then forcefully promoting—often politically unpopular global public health interventions to fight tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/AIDS.