At the end of April 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) started the process to elect a new director general to succeed Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.1 Whoever gains the most support from WHO's member states will take office amid what Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has described as a geopolitical rupture.2Since 2025, global health's weaknesses have been revealed not by a novel pathogen but by deliberate political choices that challenge existing assumptions about global cooperation. The US withdrew from WHO3; memberβ¦
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