The World Health Organization has appointed six health experts to lead the assessment of its oft-criticized response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
The decision, made by Director-General Margaret Chan and announced Tuesday, was among the first steps the agency has taken since member states adopted in January a resolution containing a slew of reforms aimed at ending the Ebola pandemic and strengthening WHO’s capacity to respond to future outbreaks and emergencies.
The assessment will look at “all aspects of WHO’s response” from the onset of the crisis and across the three levels of the organization — from headquarters down to regional and country levels — including how it coordinated the response, mobilized resources and how well it was able to follow its own emergency response framework.
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Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.
