WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

patrick.goodenough | July 24, 2022
As he declared monkeypox to be a “public health emergency of international concern,” World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom…
patrick.goodenough | June 30, 2020
Six months after China first reported the outbreak of an unknown virus in Wuhan to the World Health Organization, the U.N. health agency says a team…
patrick.goodenough | March 6, 2020
The head of the World Health Organization spoke Thursday about the importance of countries’ responses to the outbreak being led from the highest…
patrick.goodenough | March 3, 2020
Amid reports of a much higher coronavirus death toll than reported to the World Health Organization, its secretary-general says they have not seen…
patrick.goodenough | February 28, 2020
For the first time since the coronavirus outbreak began, the number of new confirmed cases outside of China has exceeded the number of new cases…
patrick.goodenough | February 17, 2020
The UN World Health Organization is pushing back against criticism, from U.S. officials among others, of the way Chinese authorities are dealing with…