Three ideas on how the new WHO DG can build health systems from the bottom up
Kabir Sheikh is the chair of Health Systems Global and a member of WHO’s Health Systems Governance Collaborative. The Conversation UK receives funding from these organisations View the full list Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus Adhanom is the first African to become the director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO). He is also the first non-physician to head up the United Nations’ body. He has big challenges ahead of him. He will be expected use his formidable talents – including diplomacy – to boost the WHO’s image and finances, protect it against the whimsical policies of superpowers, and keep the organisation free of commercial influences. Dr Tedros has already prioritised improving universal health coverage. As he put it: All roads should lead to universal health coverage. I will not rest until we have met this. To achieve this, he will need to strengthen health systems. But the challenge he faces is that the responsibility for strengthening health systems is different in different
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