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Wind of change at WHO
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A wind of change has begun to blow through the corridors of the World Health Organisation (WHO). Earlier this year, the new Director General, public health physician and former prime minister of Norway Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, identified tobacco, along with malaria, as the two priority areas where she wanted to implement new projects when she took up office in July. The identification of effective operational programmes to combat tobacco was among nine areas of work taken on by a transitional team sponsored by the Norwegian government, to help the change-over process from the WHO's previous leadership, under Director General Dr Hiroshi Nakajima of Japan, to the new regime.
The team's work was split into "satellites", a term coined
to describe clusters of work based on the initial priorities which Dr
Brundtland outlined to the WHO executive board in January. In addition
to organisational concerns such as finance, staffing, and
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