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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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August 16, 2016
Health
Podcast: An Assessment of Former WHO Director-Generals and Previous Rounds of Director-General Elections
The following is a guest post by my colleague Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. Since 1948, seven individuals have served as the WHO director-gener…
August 12, 2013
Development
Rethinking the Meaning of Development
How should the status and progress of a country or people be measured and judged? For over six decades, the standard metric has been economic production and consumption-—per capita income, as various…
September 18, 2014
Sub-Saharan Africa
Epic Failures Feeding Ebola Crisis
West Africa’s Ebola outbreak is outpacing current efforts to contain and combat it, says CFR’s Laurie Garrett.
February 17, 2005
International Organizations
UNITED NATIONS: U.N. Reform Panel
This publication is now archived. Who serves on the U.N. reform panel?Members of the High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change, created by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in November 2003…
May 1, 2020
Diplomacy and International Institutions
The WHO and the State of Global Health Governance
Please join our panelists as they discuss the structure of the global health governance system, the role of the World Health Organization, and their perspectives on an effective international pandemi…
