Dr. Rasheed Hussain is the South East Asia Regional Advisor for WASH and Climate Change at the World Health Organization. He was the Minister of State for Health, Maldives from 2014 to 2018, where he was overseeing the Policy, Planning and International Relations Division of the Ministry of Health and the development of National Health Master Plan, Monitoring and Evaluation of Implementation Progress of the 10 year Master Plan 2016-2026. Dr Hussain served on various councils, committees, and task forces to coordinate department activities and facilitate agency goals and initiatives and was Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Gender, Family and Human Rights in Male’, Maldives.