Who Funds the WHO? A Closer Look Behind the World Health Organization’s Budget

ByDavid Bell

“Voluntary contributions, specified and thematic, make up about 80% of the budget,” denoted former WHO medical officer and scientist Dr. @bell00david.

“And this is important because specified contributions are contributions that are provided for a specific project in a specific place. They are very directive,” he explained.

“So the WHO, for 80% of its budget, now is doing what its funders tell it to do and fund it to do — not what it necessarily considers to be the appropriate way to impact public health.”

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David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), Programme Head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland, and Director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in Bellevue, WA, USA.

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