- I have long had an interest in international issues and this was an issue you could not say no to.
But I will miss many of the employees, says Anders Tegnell to TV4 Nyheterna.
“Now I get the chance to contribute to the extensive international work.
It is still very important that the vaccines reach the countries that have not had the financial conditions to buy their own vaccines ", he explains in a press release.
Anders Tegnell, one of the most described people in the Swedish media last year, says that he will not miss the media attention he received in connection with the corona pandemic.
- No, it will be quite nice to go back to a more anonymous civil servant life, he says to TV4 Nyheterna.
Then it feels fun to go to a global job for a while again before I retire, Tegnell explains to Dagens Nyheter.
The assignment for the WHO, as a senior expert, involves coordinating the work between the WHO, the UN Children's Fund Unicef and the vaccine organization Gavi.
"The assignment is, among other things, about making covid-19 vaccine available to countries in the world that have not been able to buy their own vaccine," the Swedish Public Health Agency writes on its website.
Anders Lindblom, former infection control doctor in the Dalarna Region and today active at the Swedish Public Health Agency's department for infection control and health protection, will take over as state epidemiologist when Tegnell leaves.