E-drug: Lancet coverage of race to succeed Brundtland
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[crossposted from Afro-nets with thanks. BS]
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Source: UNWire http://www.unwire.org/
The Lancet has begun special coverage on the election of the
successor to World Health Organization Director General Gro Harlem
Brundtland, saying "few would dispute" Brundtland's "indelible mark"
on global health and adding that her work is still very much in
progress and requires "a strong and capable successor." The Lancet's
coverage of the issue will continue over the next few months.
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol361/iss9351/full/llan.361.9351.who_director_general_election.23884.1
Brundtland unexpectedly announced in August that she would not seek a
second term, a surprise even to her closest colleagues at WHO head-
quarters in Geneva (The Lancet, Jan. 4).
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/releases/who65/en/print.html
Various candidates vying for this position have been featured in The
Lancet. Click
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol361/iss9351/full/llan.361.9351.who_director_general_election.23876.1
to read the platform of the head of the WHO's tuberculosis program,
Jong-Wook Lee of South Korea, and click
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol361/iss9351/full/llan.361.9351.who_director_general_election.23878.1
to read Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi's views on
improving global health and the WHO's increasing role in this process.
In an interview with National Public Radio's All Things Considered
yesterday, Brundtland described her philosophy of governing the WHO:
"The World Health Organization has to try to be the center of
excellence, to try to be the objective source of the best information
and the best practices, and that's what... we try to do to support
countries," she said. "I have been a much stronger political advocate
for health than those who went before me. It's not the higher you
shout, the more effective you are; the question is, are you able to
move
forward the forces that decide what happens."
"I managed to bring health onto the political agenda and have a
seretary general of the United Nations who, much more than anytime
before, has taken AIDS health issues as part of his central agenda,"
Brundtland said. She added, "I will be 69 after five more years and I
frankly think being 69 is too high an age to keep the level of energy
and intensity" (Brenda Wilson, NPR All Things Considered, Jan. 6).
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