The meeting of the World health Organization Executive Committee concluded on January 26, with the focus of the meeting being the termination of the U.S. withdrawal from WHO and the emphasis on WHO reform. As the WHO Secretary-General Tan Desai’s first term expires next year, the United States and other countries on the Secretary-General’s choice of wrestling will be the next year of international public health political events.
The WHO Secretary-General is a five-year term, and Tandezai’s first term will expire in 2022. The United States and the European Union now support the WHO, but whether to support the re-election of Tan Desai, remains to be seen. According to WHO’s preliminary arrangements, the election process of the Secretary-General will be launched in April this year, Member States will be notified to propose candidates for the Secretary-General, August to October candidates to attend the meetings of members of the regions, WHO will publish the list of candidates in October, if more than one country proposes candidates, the first candidates forum in November, and after the Executive Committee Member States listen to the vision statement of the candidates, the first quarter of 2022 The final list of three candidates is expected to be presented and then voted on by 194 Member States at the 2022 WHO Annual Meeting.
The Central News Agency reported that the meeting coincided with the change of the old and new regimes in the U.S. After taking office on January 20, new President Joe Biden signed the termination of former President Trump‘s withdrawal from the WHO process and appointed Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as the head of the U.S. delegation to the WHO Executive Committee.
Speaking at the WHO Executive Committee on Jan. 21, Fauci said the U.S. will restart cooperation between U.S. government personnel and WHO, calling Tandse a dear friend and stressing that the U.S. will work with member states to further advance the necessary reforms at WHO.
The 148th Executive Committee of the World Health Organization, whose primary responsibility is to implement World Health Assembly decisions and policies and to provide recommendations to the WHO Assembly, concluded on Jan. 26.
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