A visit with Dr. Bruce Aylward.
Yesterday, I had a rare privilege.
Dr. Bruce Aylward happened to be in St. John’s for a family visit.
He lives in Geneva. While he was home for a very short time, we sat down and talked his global work and Rotary’s commitment to Polio Plus.
He was aware of our local efforts from the book “The Man in the Red Suit” and that through the matching grants, he can now immunize another 150,000 children. He took the book back to Geneva!
Dr Bruce Aylward is the Assistant Director-General for Polio, Emergencies and Country Collaboration which brings together the World Health Organization’s work in polio eradication, humanitarian response and country cooperation. Since 1998, Dr Aylward has been responsible for the oversight and coordination of all polio eradication activities across WHO's Regional Offices and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative partnership. He oversaw and managed the scale-up of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which since 1997 has expanded to operate in every polio-affected country of the world and reduced the number of polio-endemic countries to four.
Bruce Templeton
“The Man in the Red Suit”
Rotary Club of St. John's