Who should lead WHO?
It’s been a busy week in New York with the Heads of State meetings and so it was only at the airport that yesterday that I saw the latest news that six candidates have been nominated for the next Director General of the World Health Organization. The five candidates are: Dr. Sania Nishtar, Pakistan’s is former Federal Minister of Education & Training, Science and Technology, Information Technology and Health. Sania is the Chair of the Health Committee of the Aman ki Asha initiative, a campaign for peace between India and Pakistan, for which she has convened several meetings and negotiated declarations. She has served as temporary advisor to the World Health Organization,[89][90] on more than 20 occasions and is a board member of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research,[91] and is co-chair of the WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity.[92] She is currently a Board member for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance,[93] and previously served as chair of their Evalu...