Director-General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Soumya Swaminathan is appointed the deputy director general of programs of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and will thus hold the second-highest position in the global body. She would work under Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who took over his current assignment this July. Soumya is the daughter of MS Swaminathan, an acclaimed plant geneticist and father of the green revolution. She is a pediatrician and a clinical scientist, known for her research on tuberculosis. She was earlier the director of the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai. Soumya will be the deputy director general for programmes (DDP) and Jane Ellison will be the deputy director general for corporate operations (DDC), said the WHO director-general while announcing his senior leadership team. Soumya has served as the director general of the ICMR for over two years now. Tags - Indian Council of Medical Research, Soumya Swaminathan, World Health Organisation, WHO, WHO Deputy Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, MS Swaminathan, Tuberculosis, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis Chennai, Jane Ellison, DDP, DDC