Zsuzsanna Jakab was appointed as WHO Deputy Director-General in 2019 after serving as WHO Regional Director for Europe since 2010. Her portfolio includes WHO’s technical programmes for universal health coverage, the life course, communicable and noncommunicable diseases, healthier populations and antimicrobial resistance, alongside other issues that the Director-General considers appropriate to delegate. A native of Hungary, she has held a number of high-profile national and international public health policy positions in the last three decades.