Global Health Insights
Peter SingerOpinions about global health, careers, and leadership by Peter Singer
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María Neira has Governor Schwarzenegger’s political touch. WHO also needs the Terminator.
My first memory of María Neira is from a meeting of WHO directors shortly after Dr Tedros was elected, almost a decade ago. The aim of the meeting was to hear their views on WHO reform. María spoke up a lot and was a natural leader in the g...
Hanan Al Kuwari gets specific on scientific independence. What about results?
When Dr Hanan Al Kuwari was chair of the WHO Executive Board, and I was leading the SDG3 Global Action Plan (an initiative to improve the global health ecosystem), she attended one of our meetings with member states at my request. She staye...
And they’re off — the WHO Director-General Race
Seven WHO Director-General candidates are out of the gate.
In this podcast, Jocalyn Clark and I handicap the field. She is approaching it from the standpoint of a medical journal editor. I am approaching it as an ex-insider who tried to re...
A Canadian ARPA-H would pay three times
On February 26, 2008, I received a call from an official in the Department of Finance in Canada. He said, “You will want to watch the Minister of Finance deliver the budget today. We’ve been reading your editorials.” Indeed, I had been argu...
WHO Director-General Election Scorecard
Update — 25 October 2026 (earlier update and original post below)
Imagine it is 2030. The next Director-General of WHO is three years into the job. What could you check? Not whether WHO is “more accountable” — every candidate promises that...
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Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto, board member, blogger and skier; co-founder of University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics and Grand Challenges Canada; and former Special Advisor to the WHO Director General.
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