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Sam Loewenberg

Sam Loewenberg is a journalist who covers the intersection of global health, business, government and politics. He has done research on global health and public policy at Harvard University as a fellow at the Nieman Foundation and at the Safra Center for Ethics, and at Columbia as a Knight-Bagehot fellow. His work has appeared in The Economist, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Scientific American, Health Affairs, Playboy, and The Lancet, as well as on PBS. His website is www.samloewenberg.com.

Latest Articles

  • WHO Election
    Q&A: WHO candidate Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
    19 Jan 2017

    Director-general candidate Tedros of Ethiopia says he would begin reforming the World Health Organization by listening to concerns and assessing priorities. Member states should up their funding commitment if they want a real decision-making power in the organization's future, he tells Devex.

  • WHO election
    Election sees WHO's future role in question
    12 Jan 2017

    Whoever wins among six candidates for the director-generalship of the World Health Organization will have a consequential impact on the future of agency and of global public health itself. Candidates are promising leadership and bold change. But any reform will have to contest with a WHO's fraught budget, demanding member states and a stultifying bureaucracy. Devex takes an exclusive look at the stakes behind the vote.

  • Exclusive Interview
    UN’s staunchest ally
    3 Aug 2010

    For 12 years now, the United Nations Foundation has helped to broaden the U.S. government’s support for the U.N. UNF CEO Kathy Buskin Calvin talks with Devex about successes and challenges in lobbying for U.N. funding and an increased focus on the Millennium Development Goals.

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