Dr Cherian Varghese
Dr Cherian Varghese works as the cross-cutting lead for NCD and special initiatives in WHO Geneva. He represents NCD department in primary health care, ageing, cervical cancer elimination and other areas. He joined the WHO country office for India in 2001 in social change and noncommunicable diseases, from 2007 to 2015 he worked at the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila and in the Division of Pacific Technical Support in Fiji. Since 2015 he worked as coordinator for NCD management in WHO Geneva and moved into the new position in 2020. He led the development of the WHO HEARTS package and updated WHO PEN among others and published over 90 articles in the field of NCDs and health systems.
Dr Varghese worked in clinical oncology and epidemiology in the Regional Cancer Centre in Trivandrum, India for ten years and as research fellow at the University of Leeds for two years. He holds a medical degree with postgraduate training in radiation oncology and hospital management from India. He also holds an MPHil., from the University of Cambridge, UK and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Tampere, Finland.
