Global Health NOW: Desperately Seeking Leadership: MSF’s Joanne Liu on WHO’s Next Director General
“When Ebola hit West Africa in 2014, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), under the leadership of Joanne Liu, MDCM, MSF’s International President, spoke out early and forcefully pressed for a stronger response from the WHO and the world. … As the world contemplates the [six WHO director-general] candidates and the future of the organization, Dr. Liu shared some qualities that MSF is searching for in the WHO’s new leadership in a Q&A with GHN’s Dayna Kerecman Myers…” (Myers, 10/17).