Dr. Christian Voumard, born in Jan. 1946, a national of Switzerland, he is now on his duties as Representative for the People’s Republic of China.
　　 The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has worked with the Chinese Government for the past 25 years, supporting innovative programmes in the health, education and other social sectors which have often been adopted and taken to scale by the line ministries. These efforts have in the past helped China achieve and maintain such spectacular and globally recognized successes such as Universal Child Immunization and Universal Salt Iodization.
　　 UNICEF’s latest in a line of distinguished representatives to China is Dr. Christian Voumard, a Swiss paediatrician who has worked for UNICEF for more than twenty years. Working mainly in Africa, Dr. Voumand has devoted his efforts to fighting vaccine preventable diseases and endemic diseases such as malaria as well as supporting improved education for girls and developing innovative programming in the areas of water supply and emergencies. Beijing is Dr. Voumard’s sixth assignment for UNICEF where he currently directs a multi-sector five-year program with a budget of around 100 million USD and a total staffing of over seventy.
　　Over the past two years, under the leadership of Dr. Christian Voumard, UNICEF has become more actively involved in areas which are newer for the organization in China. These include HIV/AIDS with special emphasis on young people and orphans, children of migrant workers, child trafficking, child injury and arsenicosis. The expansion of UNICEF’s work in health and education has meanwhile focused increasingly on addressing disparities affecting particularly those places of the western provinces. The successes achieved for IDD have also been carried into incorporating food fortification with micronutrients, the provision of Vitamin A and into helping formulate a national nutrition policy.Innovative studies have been conducted by UNICEF and its partners in these areas which have led to the emergence of new programming concerns for the nation as a whole.
　　 Recently, UNICEF has extended his cooperation with the private enterprises. The Fund-raising Department was established under the leadership of Dr. Voumard, so that there will be more help to the children in China.