Editorial: Gearing up for the Zika threat
The World Health Organization has declared that the outbreak of Zika and congenital malformations and neurological disorders in newborns believed to be connected to the virus is a global public…
Category: Margaret Chan
Zika: ‘I think WHO should declare an emergency’
The World Health Organization faced flak for its delay by two months in 2014 in declaring the Ebola epidemic as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). This might…
Keeping girls in school cuts child, maternal mortality
“Educate them [girls] and empower them and keep them in school as long as you can and those women are the best agents of change. No question about it,”…
Editorial: Necessary but not good enough
Published in The Hindu on October 3, 2011 A political declaration adopted recently by more than 30 world leaders and 100 senior Ministers at the United Nations General Assembly is…
Editorial: WHO and conflicts of interest
Published in The Hindu on June 14, 2010 A year after the World Health Organisation declared an Influenza A(H1N1) pandemic, a joint investigation by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) and…
