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- China nominates Song Li, senior health official, as a candidate for WHO Director-General.
- Song Li leads the Department of Women and Child Health at the National Health Commission.
- She has 21 years of women-child health policy experience and helped manage SARS, bird-flu and COVID-19 responses.
- The World Health Assembly will vote in May, and if elected she would be the second Chinese WHO chief.