Mr Robb Butler
WHO
Executive Director of the Regional Director’s Office
Biography
Mr Robb Butler is a social scientist and public health promotion adviser with over 25 years of international experience working in public health, social protection, and humanitarian assistance in developing and transitional Member States. Mr Butler’s areas of experience and knowledge include behavioural/community insight methodology and social science interventions for public health.
Mr Butler began his career in rural Afghanistan in 1990, and worked for 15 years on rural development, social protection, and sexual and reproductive health programmes in Asia and Africa. From 2009, Mr Butler focused on spearheading WHO’s efforts to strengthen childhood immunization demand promotion to countries in the WHO European Region. Between 2014 and 2018, he led the vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization programme at WHO/Europe.
