 In addition to eHealth, his current interests include preventable infectious diseases (particularly HIV/AIDS), diseases of an ageing population, and pandemics.Behbehani has worked with the Japanese government to develop Japan’s initiative in the fight against infectious and parasitic diseases, which was brought to the Kyushu-Okinawa G8 Summit in July 2000 by the then Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto.His WHO Health Academy initiative catalyzed the development and adoption of a World Health Assembly resolution on eHealth and of WHO’s eHealth strategy, both of which were developed under his leadership as Assistant Director-General.