Martin Taylor

Mr. Martin Taylor is WHO Representative to China. He took up his position as WHO Representative in China in July 2023.

Previously, Martin was Director of the Division of Health Systems and Services in the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office in Manila. In this role he led the Division’s work on health financing, workforce, primary health care, service delivery, rehabilitation, essential medicines and technologies, health legislation, traditional medicine, maternal and child health and quality of health care including infection prevention control.

Martin Taylor has worked as an adviser and leader on global health and development assistance for health for over 20 years – with a strong focus on supporting countries to strengthen health systems. Prior to working in the WHO Regional Office Martin worked as an advisor to the Australian High Commission on health cooperation in Papua New Guinea, and from 2013 to 2017 Martin was the Head of the Health Systems and Health Security team in WHO Office in Beijing, China.

Previously he worked as health adviser for the UK Department for International Development in various HQ, regional and country roles (including in Beijing from 2003-2007 as lead on UK cooperation with China on public health). He was part of the team that established the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria in 2002.

He studied at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.