Ok, so the report likely none of you have been waiting for is now out! Yes, I’m talking about EB154/29 Rev 1, 21st December 2023, aka Sustainable financing: WHO investment round. Report by the Director-General.…
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Whose 14th General Program of Work?
The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) General Program of Work (GPW) is the Organisation’s main strategy document that describes its health priorities, strategic objectives, health outputs, and an indicative budget (or ‘financing envelope’) for a multi-year…
WHO’s Financing Mechanism: what, why and for whom?
The 76th World Health Assembly (WHA) is being held next week, which is good news if you’re in the Geneva rental market. Watching the WHA, the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2) is coordinating ‘WHA Today’,…
The WHO that “‘we’ need”?
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A paper by Clare Wenham and Sara Davies has just been published in Health Economics, Policy and Law. ‘What’s the ideal World Health Organization(WHO)?’ is a provocative essay about WHO’s mandate, scope, governance, structure, funding…
Does global health really need Richard Horton?
I blame twitter. I’m off it for a couple of years and the day I re-enter the fray, I stumble across “a little twitter spat” (as Politico called it) between the Editor of The Lancet,…
WHO’s program budget 2024-25 – base segment nil point
If you’ve been reading the budget documentation prepared for WHO’s Executive Board meeting next week, you may have noticed that the base segment of WHO’s 2024-25 program budget will be increasing by precisely no $.…
A replenishment mechanism for WHO?
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The 152nd meeting of WHO’s Executive Board is likely to be one of the most important in recent years. From a financing point of view, the Board will be considering a Report of the Agile Member…
Sustainably financing the World Health Organisation, part two
Hold onto your seats folks because the 75th World Health Assembly is about to convene! Health Ministers (and billionaires, CEOs, NGOs, CSOs, etc) of the world converge in Geneva next week to review and approve/contest…
Sustainably financing the World Health Organisation, part one
The Executive Board of the World Health Organisation is meeting next week. One of the agenda items is sustainable financing of the Organisation. ‘Sustainable’ in this context refers less to the well-known reality that WHO’s…
WHO cares? A reply to Calvert and Arbuthnott
WHO cares? Well, yes, WHO – the World Health Organisation – does actually care. It cares a lot about a lot of things – all of which are beneficial to my, yours, everyone’s health on…