[Comment] Offline: The tasks facing Dr Tedros

Uncertainty is good. The fluidity that doubt brings can stimulate fresh thinking. Old assumptions discarded, orthodoxies dissolved, shibboleths erased. Unpredictability can be provocatively energising. WHO is currently undergoing such a period of creative instability. The draft 13th General Programme of Work (GPW) for 2019 –23, presented to a Special Session of the Executive Board last month, was welcomed by member states as an ambitious new vision for the agency. But it also opened up a disruptive conversation about WHO's role and purpose.

Source: LANCET - December 8, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Richard Horton Tags: Comment Source Type: research