Dr Jos Vandelaer is the WHO Representative to Thailand, taking up office in October 2021. Prior to his current position, Dr Vandelaer was the Regional Director for Emergencies in the World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia from October 2020. He started his career in 1986 with the NGO Médecins Sans Frontières, working in emergencies in Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Surinam, and Thailand. Later he worked in migration/refugee health for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Viet Nam and Croatia/Bosnia-Herzegovina and for UNHCR in Myanmar. In 1996, he joined the World Health Organization, where he held immunization-related positions in the Philippines, India, and Myanmar. In 2001, he joined UNICEF in Geneva, and from 2009 until 2015, he was Chief of UNICEF’s global Immunization program based in New York, USA. From 2015 to 2020, Dr Vandelaer was the WHO Representative to Nepal, where he oversaw WHO’s support to the government and people of Nepal. Dr Vandelaer is a Belgian national and holds a Medical Doctor degree from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), a diploma in Tropical Medicine from the Antwerp Institute for Tropical Medicine (Belgium), and a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Harvard University (USA).