Whoever fills the role, the new WHO director-general has a rocky road ahead

Sonia Allan

Whoever fills the role, the new WHO director-general has a rocky road ahead

Sonia Allan

School of Law

Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

Abstract

At the 70th UN World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 22 to 31 2017, all 194 member countries will vote on the next director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the first time the vote is open to the assembly’s entire membership instead of just the executive board.

The person who takes office on July 1 2017 will have significant impact on the organisation, and on all of global health. From an initial list of six, proposed by member states in September 2016, the number of candidates is now down to three.

Original language	English
Pages	1-4
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publisher	The Conversation Media Group Ltd
Publication status	Published - 3 May 2017

Access to Document

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/59150

Handle.net

Persistent link

Cite this

@misc{f40a2302de0c471b928ce3a6cf27929f,

title = "Whoever fills the role, the new WHO director-general has a rocky road ahead",

abstract = "At the 70th UN World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 22 to 31 2017, all 194 member countries will vote on the next director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the first time the vote is open to the assembly{\textquoteright}s entire membership instead of just the executive board. The person who takes office on July 1 2017 will have significant impact on the organisation, and on all of global health. From an initial list of six, proposed by member states in September 2016, the number of candidates is now down to three.",

author = "Sonia Allan",

year = "2017",

month = may,

day = "3",

language = "English",

pages = "1--4",

journal = "The Conversation",

issn = "1441-8681",

publisher = "The Conversation Media Group Ltd",

}

TY - GEN

T1 - Whoever fills the role, the new WHO director-general has a rocky road ahead

AU - Allan, Sonia

PY - 2017/5/3

Y1 - 2017/5/3

N2 - At the 70th UN World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 22 to 31 2017, all 194 member countries will vote on the next director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the first time the vote is open to the assembly’s entire membership instead of just the executive board. The person who takes office on July 1 2017 will have significant impact on the organisation, and on all of global health. From an initial list of six, proposed by member states in September 2016, the number of candidates is now down to three.

AB - At the 70th UN World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 22 to 31 2017, all 194 member countries will vote on the next director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the first time the vote is open to the assembly’s entire membership instead of just the executive board. The person who takes office on July 1 2017 will have significant impact on the organisation, and on all of global health. From an initial list of six, proposed by member states in September 2016, the number of candidates is now down to three.

UR - https://theconversation.com/whoever-fills-the-role-the-new-who-director-general-has-a-rocky-road-ahead-76999

M3 - Article

SN - 1441-8681

SP - 1

EP - 4

JO - The Conversation

JF - The Conversation

PB - The Conversation Media Group Ltd

ER -

Whoever fills the role, the new WHO director-general has a rocky road ahead

Abstract

Access to Document

Handle.net

Fingerprint

Cite this