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WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has sought to transform WHO to maximize its impact. Image: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images

Inside the Mind of Tedros: A Q&A with WHO’s Director-General

Caretakers in Kenya playing with children in a health facility waiting room (using toys made from locally available materials).

Change the Early Years, Transform a Child’s Life

A general view of the participants in 2015’s "Interns with a Mission,” an initiative to enable dialogue between United Nations interns, staff, and diplomats based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Interns: Future Leaders—Not Free Labor

A nurse working with the WHO shows a bottle containing Ebola vaccine in Mbandaka, May 21, 2018.

Ebola in DRC: The Next Few Weeks Are Critical

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivers a speech on the opening day of the World Health Assembly, an annual meeting with health representatives to discuss a range of global health issues, on May 21, 2018 in Geneva

Tedros Makes His Case for a Transformed WHO

Audience members peruse a new WHO report on NCDs at its May 20 release in Geneva. (Image: Courtesy of Bloomberg Philanthropies)

WHO’s Different Calculus on NCDs: Saving Lives… and Money

A health worker at Bikoro Hospital, DRC readies to confront Ebola. (Image: ©UNICEF/UN0209049/Naftalin)

DRC’s Ebola Outbreak Not An International Emergency—Yet, Says WHO

The Palais des Nations: The main UN building in Geneva, Switzerland on December 6, 2012.

8 Things to Watch at This Year’s World Health Assembly—#WHA71

Blazing Injustice: The Hidden Crisis of Burn Injuries

Children in Sennar State, Sudan, a country afflicted by mycetoma.

The Road Ahead for the Most Neglected Disease

Prayer flags fluttering above Nepal. Image Courtesy of Emaline Laney.

How Emaline Laney Found the Untold Global Health Story of 2017

A 15-year-old child laborer, smokes a bidi (leaf-rolled tobacco cigar) while working in a brick factory at Ghanashyampur village in Murshidabad, 350 km north of Kolkata, India.

Powering Up to Fight Tobacco