The Ebola outbreak has revealed serious resource mobilization problems at the world’s “go-to” response agency, according to some global health experts.
Tackling the disease in West Africa — where ill-equipped national health systems and lack of infrastructure have spurred the rampant spread of the deadly virus — has been a tall challenge for the World Health Organization, and made all the more difficult by the U.N. agency’s funding structure.
“They basically have a begging bowl,” Lawrence Gostin, WHO Collaborating Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights director, said Sept. 3 during a panel discussion hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
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Jeff Tyson@jtyson21
Jeff is a former global development reporter for Devex. Based in Washington, D.C., he covers multilateral affairs, U.S. aid, and international development trends. He has worked with human rights organizations in both Senegal and the U.S., and prior to joining Devex worked as a production assistant at National Public Radio. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations and French from the University of Rochester.
