WHO Director-General says countries need to put people over profits

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, joined the Yale Institute for Global Health to discuss the status of COVID-19 and its variants around the world and what needs to be done to manage this and future pandemics. The Global Health Conversation Series is cosponsored by the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture in International Studies at the MacMillan Center. Watch the conversation here. 

You can also view other events that were part of the Global Health Conversation Series at the links below:

Higher Education in a Post-COVID World: A Panel Discussion with University Presidents

Planet, People, and Prosperity: Achim Steiner, Administrator, UNDP

How to Rebuild After Global Health Crisis: Dr. Bernice Dahn, VP Health Sciences, Univ. of Liberia

Child Health and Wellbeing During and Beyond a Pandemic: Henrietta Fore, Executive Director, UNICEF

COVID-19 Update: Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Director, NIAID

Foreign Policy, Politics, and Global Health: John Kerry, Former U.S. Secretary of State