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| name='''Halfdan T. Mahler'''
| nationality=Danish
| order=[[World Health Organization#Directors-General of WHO|Director-General of World Health Organization]]
| term_start=1973
| term_end=1988
| predecessor=[[Marcolino Gomes Candau]]
| successor=[[Hiroshi Nakajima]]
| birth_date={{Birth date and age|1923|4|21|df=y}}
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<!--Please SEE naming conventions at WP:MOSBIO, please do not add details like "Dr."(this includes adding postnominal degrees after her name)-->'''Halfdan T. Mahler''' of [[Denmark]] was born on [[21 April]] [[1923]] at [[Vivild, Denmark]]. In 1951, he joined the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) and spent almost ten years in [[India]] as Senior WHO Officer attached to the National [[Tuberculosis]] Programme. From 1962, he was Chief of the Tuberculosis Unit at the WHO Headquarters in [[Geneva]] until 1969, when he was appointed Director, Project Systems Analysis. In [[1970]], he was made Assistant Director-General of WHO while retaining the direction of Project Systems Analysis. In 1973, while occupying that position, Dr Mahler was elected WHO's third Director-General. He was re-elected for two successive five-year terms in [[1978]] and 1983 respectively. Under Dr Mahler, in [[1979]], the Thirty-second World Health Assembly launched the Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000.

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