New Opinion Piece in Think Global Health
“Inaction on the global health reform agenda is not a neutral choice; it is a decision to impede or even undermine progress.”
Gunilla Carlsson and Anders Nordström have a new piece out in Think Global Health discussing how the multilateral system for health needs reform, not retreat.
Ahead of the World Health Assembly in May, the international system for health faces a defining moment.
Diagnosing the international system for health's flaws has been the easy part of global health reform discussions. What's needed now is an ambitious roadmap on the way forward for a simpler, more focused, more legitimate international health system where global institutions do less, but do it better.
The question is whether political and institutional leaders will act on what they have long observed. There is an opportunity to align the WHO initiated consultations with the Accra reset process.
"When multilateralism loses, it is not institutions that suffer most, but people."
Reform is not optional. It is overdue.