Elaine Ruth Fletcher
Editor-in-Chief at Health Policy Watch
Editor-in-chief, Health Policy Watch
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1 week ago |
healthpolicy-watch.news | Elaine Ruth Fletcher
The US-based Boston Consulting Group has been working with WHO’s senior leadership, under contract, to develop the major reorganization and cost-saving plan, now pending final presentation to staff and member states next week, Health Policy Watch has learned. Members of the Staff Association Committee confirmed to WHO staff members on Thursday, that BCG has been involved in the strategic planning for dramatic cutbacks in the agency’s workforce.
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1 week ago |
healthpolicy-watch.news | Elaine Ruth Fletcher
The number of WHO programme divisions would be reduced from 10 to just five and the number of directors in headquarters would shrink from nearly 80 to around 30 in an emergency reorganization plan reviewed by the agency’s executive management group at a closed-door retreat on Saturday.
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3 weeks ago |
healthpolicy-watch.news | Elaine Ruth Fletcher
WHO’s budget crisis is even bigger than previously thought. The global health organization is short nearly $1.9 billion from a planned $4.2 billion budget for 2026-27, along with a $600 million deficit through end-2025, senior WHO officials revealed at a global ‘Town Hall’ meeting of WHO staff on Tuesday, heard by Health Policy Watch.
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4 weeks ago |
healthpolicy-watch.news | Elaine Ruth Fletcher
Air pollution has been linked to poor brain development, as well as a higher risk of dementia and stroke. A link has also been established between exposure to air pollution and depression as well as higher suicide rates. The subject received attention at the second WHO’s global conference on air pollution and health in Cartagena, Colombia this week.
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Dec 15, 2023 |
wp.me | Elaine Ruth Fletcher
In the wake of COP28, WHO will press ahead with calls for fossil fuel phase out, stepped up commitments for health sector decarbonization, and a new resolution on Climate and Health, set to go before the World Health Assembly in May 2024. Those were key takeaways from an end-year WHO global press briefing by WHO Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom and other senior officials in an end-year press briefing Friday before the Geneva press corps.
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