Helen Clark
Latest Articles
Opinion: The lack of women in global health leadership has a cure
9 months ago // Gender equality
That cure? Structural reforms for gender equity in global health that address organizational culture, fair hiring processes, and a true commitment to gender equity.
Opinion: How we must rethink the future of women’s and children’s health
11 months ago // Global Health
Amid aid cuts, to sustain women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health, the global health community must pivot to self-reliance, innovative funding, and global south leadership.
Opinion: Voters should hold leaders accountable for toxic air in 2024
about 2 years ago // Global health
From Peshawar to Los Angeles, voters will be traveling to the polls in unacceptable levels of air pollution this year.
Opinion: Here we go again … Pandemic preparedness financing
over 3 years ago // Global Health
Excluding voices from lower-income countries and civil society could doom the World Bank's new pandemic tool — the Financial Intermediary Fund — from the start.
Opinion: Time to come clean on hand-washing investment
over 4 years ago // WASH Works
COVID-19 has shone a spotlight on hand-washing and ways of getting clean water and soap to billions of people who need them. Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf set out the steps we need to take to fix hand hygiene once and for all.
Opinion: It always seems impossible until it's done
about 6 years ago // Sustainable Development Goals
Why are CEOs and boards being trained and coached, while government leaders and ministers are generally expected to learn on the job? Simone Filippini of Leadership4SDGs and Helen Clark, former UNDP administrator, share their opinion.