BREAKING – WHO Director General Shakes Up Agency with Brand New Leadership Team
A brand-new World Health Organization (WHO) leadership team has been announced, including a dramatically reduced number of leaders and a major shake-out of longstanding faces including Dr Mike Ryan, the Deputy Director General and emergencies director, and Dr Bruce Aylward, who helped the Director-General steer the organization through the COVID-19 crisis but also got the heat for some of the mistakes made by the organization in the process.
In Ryan’s place, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, a Nigerian-German who is currently head of Health Emergency Intellience and Surveillance at a WHO pandemic hub in Berlin, will take over as head of the entire health emergencies operation at headquarters, the largest department in the organization, Health Policy Watch learned from an internal email sent by DG Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to staff Wednesday morning.
