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.