# \[e-drug\] Lancet coverage of race to succeed Brundtland

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E-drug: Lancet coverage of race to succeed Brundtland  
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&nbsp;&nbsp;[crossposted from Afro-nets with thanks. BS]  
[URLs will need repair]  
Source: UNWire [http://www.unwire.org/](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](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](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](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](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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