The World Health Organization (WHO) is undergoing a crisis of credibility and challenge: this study reviews the WHO's actions in the most visible programmes such as SARS, H1N1, Ebola and also smallpox, malaria, onchocerciasis, polio and AIDS.
Yves Beigbeder's splendid scholarship comes at a pivotal moment for WHO-after its widely criticized response to Ebola. Will the Organization become the global health leader it was meant to be? Or will member states starve it of funding, as its capabilities wither? Yves Beigbeder's important ?book illuminates these?vital questions?, urging, rightfully, for a reenergized WHO to fight global health crises arising today and into the future. - Lawrence O'Gostin, Professor, Georgetown University and Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National & Global Health Law.