Children's Health Defense The World Health Organization promoted Jeremy Farrar, Ph.D., the architect of several key COVID-19 pandemic-era policies, including mass vaccination, to assistant director-general as part of a broader shakeup that includes significant budget cuts, Reuters reported Wednesday.
The World Health Organization (WHO) promoted Jeremy Farrar, Ph.D., the architect of several key COVID-19 pandemic-era policies, including mass vaccination, to assistant director-general as part of a broader shakeup that includes significant budget cuts, Reuters reported Wednesday.
According to Health Policy Watch, Farrar, the WHO’s chief scientist since January 2023, will step into his role as assistant director-general for Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Control on June 16.
The WHO management team was reduced from 14 to seven as part of changes Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced Wednesday. These include significant reductions in staff and the number of departments and divisions.
The moves come just months after the Trump administration announced it would withdraw the U.S. from the WHO and just a week before the organization’s annual meeting, the 78th World Health Assembly, is set to begin in Geneva, Switzerland, where the proposed “pandemic agreement” will be discussed.
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