Experts Ask WHO to Change to Address Health Issues
Roger Bate, Nonresident Scholar at ICLE was quoted in this Manila Standard article on World Health Organization and its effectiveness in addressing global health issues. Read the full story here.
“The WHO needs fundamental reform,” said Roger Bate, a global health policy expert at the International Center for Law and Economics, during a panel organized by the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA).
Bate said the WHO has “failed repeatedly” in areas ranging from COVID-19 response to tobacco policy.
“If the organization cannot evolve to incorporate modern science and real-world solutions, then it risks becoming obsolete,” Bate said.
Bate also criticized the WHO’s political nature and its Geneva bureaucracy, noting that it is now at least 60-percent funded by “powerful vested interests,” including pharmaceutical companies and wealthy individuals with “very strong and strict agendas.”