Atul Gawande, the head of USAID’s global health bureau, knows that three years of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on his staff.
“People are tired,” Gawande said at a Devex event Wednesday on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly in Geneva. “We all feel like we’ve been running a sprint for three years, and when does it stop?”
The pandemic piled pressure on a workforce that was already beset by management challenges decades in the making.
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Michael Igoe@AlterIgoe
Michael Igoe is a Senior Reporter with Devex, based in Washington, D.C. He covers U.S. foreign aid, global health, climate change, and development finance. Prior to joining Devex, Michael researched water management and climate change adaptation in post-Soviet Central Asia, where he also wrote for EurasiaNet. Michael earned his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College, where he majored in Russian, and his master’s degree from the University of Montana, where he studied international conservation and development.
