Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, D-G of the World Health Organization, photo by Elma Okic via UN Geneva Flickr CC
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,660, July 26, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The World Health Organization (WHO) performed exceptionally poorly during the COVID-19 crisis, which was one of the greatest threats to global public health since the organization’s founding in 1946. It is high time that the WHO was reformed from the ground up. President Donald Trump is taking the first steps by threatening to pull all US funding from the organization, which has become