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Emeritus
Reforming the World Health Organization (JAMA, extract, edited)
[Source: JAMA, full text: <cite cite="http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/early/2011/03/25/jama.2011.418.full?etoc=">Reforming the World Health Organization - ? JAMA</cite>. Extract, edited.]
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JAMA. Published online March 29, 2011. doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.418
Reforming the World Health Organization
1. Devi Sridhar, DPhil; 2. Lawrence O. Gostin, JD
Author Affiliations
1. 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).
1. Corresponding Author: Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001 (gostin@law.georgetown.edu).
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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[Source: JAMA, full text: <cite cite="http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/early/2011/03/25/jama.2011.418.full?etoc=">Reforming the World Health Organization - ? JAMA</cite>. Extract, edited.]
ONLINE FIRST
JAMA. Published online March 29, 2011. doi: 10.1001/jama.2011.418
Reforming the World Health Organization
1. Devi Sridhar, DPhil; 2. Lawrence O. Gostin, JD
Author Affiliations
1. 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).
1. Corresponding Author: Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001 (gostin@law.georgetown.edu).
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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