Since 2004, Laurie Garrett has been a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Her expertise includes global health systems, chronic and infectious diseases, and bioterrorism.
Understanding the disastrous international response to last year’s Ebola pandemic in West Africa is important to ensure mistakes won’t be repeated. In this essay, Council on Foreign Relations’ senior fellow for global health Laurie Garrett takes a closer look at WHO’s missteps and makes the case for why the U.N. health agency needs to evolve.
