- Devi Sridhar, DPhil; Lawrence O. Gostin, JD
Author Affiliations: Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Oxford, England (Dr Sridhar); and O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC (Mr Gostin).
- KEYWORDS:
- budgets,
- health policy,
- organization and administration,
- organizational culture,
- private sector,
- public health administration,
- united nations,
- world health,
- world health organization.
In December 2010, Jack Chow,1 the former World Health Organization (WHO) assistant director-general, asked, “Is the WHO becoming irrelevant?” A month later, the WHO's executive board considered the agency's future within global health governance. After a year-long consultation with member states on its financing, Director-General Margaret Chan called the WHO overextended and unable to respond with speed and agility to today's global health challenges.2/.../
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