世界卫生组织（世卫组织）高兴地宣布马丁·泰勒先生为世卫组织新任驻华代表。马丁先生在全球卫生和发展领域有着二十余年的丰富经验，并曾在中国生活和工作八年，对中国有着深入了解。
世卫组织西太平洋区域代理区域主任苏珊娜·雅各布博士表示：“未来几年，世卫组织与中国的合作将对14亿中国人乃至更广泛人群的健康和福祉产生至关重要的影响。马丁先生在公共卫生领域有着深厚造诣，也有在中国的丰富经验，此次任命将有助于加强和扩大世卫组织与中国的合作伙伴关系。”
马丁先生表示：“中国是全球卫生非常重要的参与者，也是实现联合国可持续发展目标3（SDG3），即，‘到2030年确保所有人的健康与福祉’的重要力量。基于《中国-世卫组织国家合作战略（2022-2026）》，世卫组织将继续与中国政府及合作伙伴密切合作，支持惠及全中国人口的‘健康中国2030’规划纲要的实施和全民健康覆盖的实现。同时，我们会继续与中国一道，在全球范围内创建‘人人享有健康’的未来。”
“我非常期待助力‘健康中国2030’的实施，特别是帮助应对非传染性疾病的危险因素（包括吸烟、有害饮酒、不健康饮食和缺乏身体活动），并继续加强我们在结核病、肝炎和艾滋病等重大传染病方面的合作。此外，我也希望进一步支持卫生服务系统、公共卫生系统和卫生应急系统的建设。”马丁先生补充道。
马丁先生长期致力于与各国政府密切合作，改善卫生系统。就任驻华代表之前，马丁先生驻菲律宾马尼拉，任世卫组织西太平洋区域办事处卫生系统与服务司司长，领导西太区在卫生筹资、卫生立法、卫生人力、初级卫生保健、卫生服务提供、康复、基本药品、疫苗和技术、传统医药、妇幼保健，以及卫生服务质量，包括感染防控等领域的工作。
马丁先生曾为澳大利亚在巴布亚新几内亚的公共卫生和卫生保健等发展合作项目担任顾问。此前，他曾在英国国际发展部从事中亚和东欧医疗改革工作。他也是2002年成立的抗击艾滋病、结核病和疟疾全球基金的创始团队成员之一。
2003年至2007年，马丁先生首次来华工作，于英国国际发展部牵头中英两国在公共卫生领域的合作项目。2013年至2017年，他再度回到中国，任世卫组织驻华代表处卫生系统和卫生安全部门负责人。
马丁先生在剑桥大学和伦敦卫生与热带医学院完成学业，主修社会人类学、卫生政策、规划和筹资。
马丁先生是卫生健康的倡导者和践行者。他喜欢在北京亮马河畔和朝阳公园跑步、骑自行车上下班。
The World Health Organization (WHO) is pleased to announce Mr Martin Taylor as the new WHO Representative to China. Mr Taylor brings to this vital role over two decades of experience in global health and development, and an understanding of China drawing on 8 years of previously living and working in the country.
“In the coming years, cooperation between WHO and China will have a vital influence on the health and well-being of 1.4 billion Chinese people and beyond. Bringing deep public health expertise and experience in China, Martin Taylor’s appointment as the new WHO Representative will help to strengthen and expand our collaborative partnership,” said Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO’s Acting Regional Director for the Western Pacific.
“China is a very important player in global health and for the achievement of SDG3 – the global sustainable development goal to ensure health and well-being for all by 2030. As agreed in the WHO-China Country Cooperation Strategy 2022-2026, WHO will continue to work closely with the Government and partners to support implementation of the Healthy China 2030 agenda and the achievement of universal health coverage to benefit the population of China; meanwhile, we’ll continue to work together with China to promote health for all globally,” says Mr Taylor.
“I’m looking forward to supporting implementation of Healthy China 2030. In particular to help address the risk factors for non-communicable disease (including smoking, harmful alcohol consumption, unhealthy diet and insufficient physical activity), and also to continue our collaboration on important infectious disease like TB, hepatitis and HIV/AIDS. In addition, I am keen to support stronger health care delivery and public health and emergency systems”, added Mr Taylor.
The focus of Mr Taylor’s career to date has been on working closely with governments to strengthen health systems. Before taking up the role of WHO Representative to China, he was the Director of Health Systems and Services for WHO in the Western Pacific Region, based in Manila, Philippines. In that capacity, he led the Organization’s work in the Region on health financing, health legislation, workforce development, primary health care, healthcare delivery, rehabilitation, essential medicines, vaccines and other technologies, traditional medicine, maternal and child health, and quality of health care including infection prevention and control.
Mr Taylor has also advised the Australian development cooperation programme in Papua New Guinea on public health and health care issues, and earlier in his career he worked on health care reform in Central Asia and Eastern Europe for the UK Department for International Development. He was part of the team that established the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in 2002.
Mr Taylor's first time working in China was for the UK Department for International Development, when he led the United Kingdom’s cooperation with China on public health from 2003 to 2007. He returned to China from 2013 to 2017, when he led the WHO China team working on health systems and health security.
Educated at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Mr Taylor's academic background is in social anthropology, health policy, planning and financing.
Mr Taylor practices what he advocates. He enjoys running along Beijing’s Liangma River and in Chaoyang Park and commutes by bicycle to the WHO office.