{
  "id": 16615071,
  "title": "Selecting WHO Director-General: The Job Nobody Has Described (Part II)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/selecting-who-director-general-the-job-nobody-has-described-part-ii",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-26T13:54:54.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Health Policy Watch",
    "slug": "health-policy-watch",
    "url": "https://healthpolicy-watch.news/selecting-who-director-general-the-job-nobody-has-described-part-ii/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The World Health Assembly (WHA) will choose WHO’s ninth Director-General next May without having defined the job. Part I of this analysis sought to learn from the experiences of eight previous incumbents. Part II goes back to the WHO constitution, takes stock of the world’s health and that of the organization safeguarding it, before asking […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}