30 Mar Reforming the World Health Organization
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Devi Sridhar, DPhil, Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, JAMA
In December 2010, Jack Chow, 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.