by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Recent Issue, Reform of the World Health Organization
Volume XI, No. 1 Reform of the World Health Organization Guest Editors: Tine Hanrieder and Adam Kamradt-Scott Introduction: Same, same but different: Reforming the World Health Organization in an age of public scrutiny and global complexity Tine Hanrieder and...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Reform of the World Health Organization
By Tine Hanrieder and Adam Kamradt-Scott As the World Health Organization (WHO) enters its 70th year of existence, a new director-general assumes the helm of the intergovernmental organization for their next five-year term of office. The election process for the WHO’s...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Reform of the World Health Organization
By Catherine Z. Worsnop One aim of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005 is to discourage the use of overly restrictive barriers because these measures incentivize outbreak concealment and undermine outbreak response...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Reform of the World Health Organization
By Mark Eccleston-Turner and Scarlett McArdle Recently the World Health Organization (henceforward WHO) has received significant criticism for its choice of action, as well as on occasion its inaction, with much of this criticism focusing on the role the Organization...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Reform of the World Health Organization
By Julian Eckl The paper argues the working methods of the World Health Assembly (WHA) have been a recurrent object of reform discussions and that the vision that WHAs should become shorter has been a constant driver for them. It shows also how the vision of shorter...
by ghgovernance | May 30, 2017 | Reform of the World Health Organization
By Lawrence O. Gostin The United Nations created the World Health Organization (WHO) as its first specialized agency in 1948. This was a time of enormous promise for the world, coming as it did after the horrors of World War II. What is striking about the post-war...