Chris Gelardi

Chris Gelardi has a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. in humanities from Villanova University. He was a reporting fellow in the Global Migration Project at the Columbia journalism school.

Chris Gelardi

TOPIC: WOMEN

Michelle Bachelet, Outgoing President of Chile, Gets a WHO Post

January 19, 2018

by Chris Gelardi

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has agreed to chair the board of the World Health Organization’s Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health after she finishes her government role on March 11. The announcement came after a Jan. 10 meeting at the presidential palace in Santiago, during which the WHO leadership offered Bachelet the position. …

Health and Population, Women

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For UN Member Nations, ‘Vulnerability Is a Global Phenomenon’

September 24, 2013

by Dulcie Leimbach

The annual United Nations debate of the 68th General Assembly got off to a contentious start on Sept. 24 with pointedly worded but divergent speeches by Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, and Barack Obama, the president of the United States. The two countries traditionally kick off the annual debate, held every September in New York …

General Assembly

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Chilean Voters Want Michelle Bachelet Back Home

December 5, 2012

by Barbara Crossette

A series of opinion polls in recent months in Chile show that Michelle Bachelet, the executive director of UN Women, is still the most popular Chilean politician three years after her four-year term as the country’s president ended. Reports from Chile say that across the political spectrum, party officials are assuming she will be …

Women

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Chris Gelardi

Chris Gelardi

Michelle Bachelet, Outgoing President of Chile, Gets a WHO Post

For UN Member Nations, ‘Vulnerability Is a Global Phenomenon’

Chilean Voters Want Michelle Bachelet Back Home

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