<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Lexi Nolen</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:lexibambas@hotmail.com">lexibambas@hotmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:spiritof1848@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">spiritof1848@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:spiritof1848@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">spiritof1848@googlegroups.com</a>> on behalf of Anne-Emanuelle Birn <<a href="mailto:ae.birn@utoronto.ca" target="_blank">ae.birn@utoronto.ca</a>></font><br><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">The survival of WHO continues to be a prime concern; today Reuters reports
that France and Germany are seeking to increase WHO’s funding and its ability to call out non-compliant countries. </span><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Though promising, these measures still do not get to the crux of the problem. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> In May Laura Nervi and I wrote a short article on this issue titled: “(Re-)Making a People’s WHO,” which has been published in the September issue of AJPH. It highlights
the following. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> Amid the hullabaloo around the Trump administration’s withdrawal from WHO, and the many voices rallying to defend a strong WHO, a crucial issue is left out of the
picture: the vast and undemocratic influence over WHO of corporations, philanthropies, and their powerful country partners. We argue that this situation needs to be reversed in order for WHO to be re-legitimized and truly address the people’s health.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Unfortunately, one needs a personal or institutional subscription to access the article in English,
but we obtained permission to translate it in open-access format, and it has now been posted in French, Spanish, and German.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt">English version (with individual or institutional subscription): “(Re-)Making a People’s WHO,” </span><u style="font-size:10.5pt">American Journal
of Public Health</u><span style="font-size:10.5pt">, 110: 9 (September 2020): e1-e2. </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305806" style="font-size:10.5pt" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305806</span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt"></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><span><b>For those of you who read French, Spanish, or German, the open-access links are here:</b></span></span>
</p><p><span style="font-size:10.5pt">French version: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://blogs.mediapart.fr/anne-emanuelle-birn/blog/210720/re-faire-l-oms-pour-le-peuple" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue">https://blogs.mediapart.fr/anne-emanuelle-birn/blog/210720/re-faire-l-oms-pour-le-peuple</span></a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Spanish version: <a href="https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/construyendo-una-oms-para-la-gente" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/construyendo-una-oms-para-la-gente</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Spanish version also forthcoming in <u>Medicina Social</u> 2020, 13(2).</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.5pt">German version: <a href="https://www.bukopharma.de/index.php/de/8-aktuelles/361-who-fuer-menschen" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">https://www.bukopharma.de/index.php/de/8-aktuelles/361-who-fuer-menschen</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Anne-Emanuelle Birn</span></p>
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