Public health panel says the WHO needs reforms to keep it independent
Speaking at a conference, health experts say the WHO needs to be free from politics after it faced difficulties at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic
13 January 2021 - 18:03
London — The role and remit of the World Health Organisation (WHO) should be examined in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, and reforms will likely be needed to free it from politics and give it more independence, public health experts said on Wednesday.
Speaking at the Reuters Next conference, British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, Sweden’s state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, and Chikwe Ihekweazu, the head of Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control, said the UN health agency had faced difficulties in leading a global response to the pandemic...
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