45th Directing Council

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PAHO Director Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, and the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson.	WHO Director-General Dr. LEE Jong-Wook and Dr. Mirta Roses Periago
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson speaks at the opening ceremony.	The new Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Miguel Angel Rodriguez, and Dr. Mirta Roses
Miguel Angel Rodriguez, Secretary General of the OAS, speaks at the opening ceremony.	View of the main table at the opening ceremony at PAHO Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Dr. LEE Jong-Wook, WHO Director-General, speaks at the opening ceremony.	PAHO Director Dr. Mirta Roses Periago speaks at the opening ceremony.
The president of the 45th Directing Council, Nicaragua Health Minister Dr. José Antonio Alvarado	Dr. José Antonio Alvarado is congratulated by WHO Director-General Dr. LEE Jong-Wook.
Dr. José Antonio Alvarado talks to PAHO Director Dr. Mirta Roses Periago.	From the left: Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, Dr. LEE Jong-Wook, and Dr. José Antonio Alvarado.
Presentation of the Report of the XIII Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labor.	Dr. Gastão de Souza Campos, from Brazil, winner of the PAHO Award for Administration 2004.
Dr. Eduardo Salazar Lindo, from Peru, winner of the Abraham Horwitz Award for Leadership in Inter-American Health 2004.	Dr. María Graciela de Ortúzar, from Argentina, winner of the Manuel Velasco-Suárez Award in Bioethics 2004.
The President of the Executive Committee, Hon. Herbert Sabaroche.	Dr. Karen Sealey and Roman Sotela.
The Health Minister of Peru, Dr. Pilar Mazzetti, Vice-President of the Directing Council.	PAHO Director Dr. Mirta Roses, and Dr. Pilar Mazzetti.
From the left: WHO representative Dr. Anders Nordstrom, Dr. Daniel Lopez Acuña, and PAHO Director Dr. Mirta Roses.	The Health Minister of Costa Rica, Dr. María del Rocío Sáenz Madrigal, makes some remarks.
The representative from Canada, Carla Penn Gilderf, speaks at a meeting.	The representative from Haiti, Dr. Félix Binette.
Scene from the Election of Three Member States to the Executive Committee.	Election for the Executive Committee. From the left, the representative of the Netherlands, Dr. Joan P.E. Theodora-Brewster, and of Puerto Rico, Dr. Raúl Castellanos Bran.