[e-drug] New South Centre Research paper on WHO reforms

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E-DRUG: New South Centre Research paper on WHO reforms
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A new South Centre Research paper on World Health Organization Reforms in
the time of COVID-19

<https://www.southcentre.int/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/RP-121.pdf&gt;

Abstract
During its 70-year history, the World Health Organization (WHO) has undergone various reforms led by several Directors-General, including Halfdan Mahler at the Almaty Conference on primary health care in 1978, Gro Harlem Brundtland with her “reach out to the private sector” in 1998, and Margaret Chan with her unfinished debate on the role of “non-state
actors” in 2012.

The organization’s fragility is once again being highlighted, as the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that WHO does not have the legal instruments and mechanisms necessary to enforce its standards and guidelines, and that its funding is not sustainable and adequate to respond to the challenge. This paper seeks to identify the main problems faced by WHO and the necessary measures that a reform of the organization would have to take.

Dr. Germán Velásquez
Special Adviser, Policy and Health
http://www.southcentre.int
Dr. Germán Velásquez <gvelasquez.gva@gmail.com>