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Essential Questions to the WHO on Pandemic Preparedness, Response

Essential Questions to the WHO on Pandemic Preparedness, Response
The logo of the World Health Organization is seen at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, on June 11, 2009. Anja Niedringhaus/AP Photo
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking public input on the scope of a planned internationally binding pandemic agreement. Before proceeding, however, fundamental questions should be answered on the underlying justification for such an agreement, its potential benefits and harms, and the WHO’s competence for the guiding role.

David Bell, senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), programme head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland, and director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in Bellevue, Wash.
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