Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization, speaks at the opening of the 77th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday, May 27, 2024.GENEVA—The World Health Organization opened its annual meeting on Monday with government ministers and other top envoys hoping to reinforce global preparedness for the next pandemic in the devastating wake of Covid-19.
When diplomats, health officials and activists were still attempting to produce a draft pandemic treaty, he had predicted the assembly could be one of the most significant in WHO’s 76-year history. Not anymore. WHO officials and others have been eager to build on the momentum of concern from the coronavirus pandemic, with the risk that the more it fades into history, the less the public—and policymakers—will be interested in preparing for a future pandemic.
Other high-profile participants, including International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, also addressed the gathering of the UN health agency’s 194 member states.
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