The World Bank and Global Health


Nov 6, 2006

The World Bank and Global Health">  


While the Global Fund and WHO elections have received more attention, the World Bank is also searching for a new health leader, to fill the job of senior vice president for human development (which also covers education and social protection). As part of that effort, the Bank is re-examining its role in global health. In a new article in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, senior fellow Ruth Levine and Kent Buse discuss the Bank’s potential contributions and describe steps that the new vice president will have to take to work "across sectors, across countries, and within systems." The article is posted on CGD’s Global Health Policy Blog. Read the blog and comment