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Addressing Global Health Governance Challenges through a New Mechanism: The Proposal for a Committee C of the World Health Assembly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Ilona Kickbusch ,
Wolfgang Hein  and
Gaudenz Silberschmidt
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In January 2010 the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) called for an “informal consultation on the future of financing for WHO” and in her opening remarks expressed the need to make the WHO fit for purpose given the unique health challenges of the 21st century.

Margaret Chan referred to the constitutional role that WHO has to “act as the directing and co-ordinating authority on international health work” and stated clearly that global health leadership today and for the future must be earned through strategic and selective engagement. She said, “WHO can no longer aim to direct and coordinate all of the activities and policies in multiple sectors that influence public health today.” This is a clear challenge that she has put to the global health community in recognition that WHO’s role must be clarified in the face of major change.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , Fall 2010 , pp. 550 - 563
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2010

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