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Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Global Health

By Tom Murphy2 June 2017

Universal health coverage is top priority for new WHO chief

The new head of WHO says his top priority is achieving universal health coverage – guaranteeing everyone access to basic healthcare regardless of location or economic status. The idea is hardly new, and has its opponents, but there appears new momentum worldwide to finally achieving it.

Podcasts

By Joanne Lu26 May 2017

A conversation with Laurie Garrett about the road ahead for the WHO

The 70th World Health Assembly in Geneva just elected a new director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday. But underfunded and over strapped, what does the road ahead look like for the WHO? To answer that question for us in today’s Humanosphere podcast, we caught up with Laurie Garrett, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.