What is the Controversy Over Taiwan at the World Health Organization? Mark Leon Goldberg May 18, 2020 Representatives from most of the 194 member countries of the World Health Organization gather in Geneva each May for the World Health Assembly. This is a flagship event for the World Health Organization, and fo...
How Will COVID-19 Impact Africa? The WHO Releases Pandemic Projections Joanne Lu May 12, 2020 So far, COVID-19 hasn’t hit Africa as hard as other regions, but a new study by the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts the worst of the pandemic is yet to come for the continent, and it may “smolder” for ...
Routine Immunization is More Important than Ever Mark Leon Goldberg May 6, 2020 A campaign to champion all vaccines matters now more than ever Katherine E. Gallagher, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Anthony Scott, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Ifeda...
Why we need to support health workers in this pandemic Mark Leon Goldberg April 29, 2020 This post originally appeared in The Conversation and is reprinted with permission Anatole Manzi, University of Global Health Equity Almost all African countries have reported cases of the new coronavirus...
Why Lockdown Is Nearly Impossible in Much of Africa Mark Leon Goldberg April 21, 2020 By Sam Jones, United Nations University; Eva-Maria Egger, United Nations University, and Ricardo Santos, United Nations University As the COVID-19 virus has spread across the globe, developing countries are ...
What Will COVID-19 Do to the Sustainable Development Goals? Joanne Lu April 17, 2020 The economic impact of COVID-19 could increase global poverty for the first time in three decades, pushing more than half a billion people – or 8 percent of humanity – into poverty, according to a new paper pub...
The Trump Administration’s Decision to Freeze Funding for the World Health Organization Will Make the Coronavirus Pandemic Much Worse Mark Leon Goldberg April 15, 2020 Freezing Funding For The World Health Organization The Trump administration is freezing United States funding to the World Health Organization. This will hurt the World Health Organization. But more importantl...
The UN Has a “Global Roadmap” to Defeat COVID-19. Will Countries Follow It? Joanne Lu April 7, 2020 Late last week, the United Nations published a global “roadmap” to defeat COVID-19, including a new $1 billion trust fund for low- and middle-income countries, where the impacts are expected to be far worse onc...
Americans Really Trust the World Health Organization Right Now Mark Leon Goldberg March 15, 2020 A new scientific poll shows that Americans are giving the World Health Organization (WHO) high marks right now. The poll, conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of Better World Campaign from March 06 - 09, quer...
