Severing ties with WHO offers opportunity to “build something better”
30 May 2020
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Philip Booth quoted by The Daily Mail
30 May 2020
Government and Institutions
In response Donald Trump’s announcement that the US will terminate its relationship with the World Health Organization, IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics Christopher Snowdon says:
“You can question his timing and motives, but Mr Trump’s decision to pull out of the WHO offers an opportunity to build something better. If the WHO cannot be reformed, it can be replaced.
“The world needs a politically independent organisation that is wholly focused on tackling infectious diseases. If the WHO is no longer able to serve that function, the money should be redirected to one which can.”
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For media enquiries, please contact Annabel Denham, Director of Communications: 07540770774.
Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, is available for further comment.
For more on the WHO:
Trump is right: the rotten World Health Organisation should be reformed or abolished
UK should follow US lead and halt WHO funding, says IEA expert
The mission of the Institute of Economic Affairs is to improve understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society by analysing and expounding the role of markets in solving economic and social problems.
The IEA is a registered educational charity and independent of all political parties.
“You can question his timing and motives, but Mr Trump’s decision to pull out of the WHO offers an opportunity to build something better. If the WHO cannot be reformed, it can be replaced.
“The world needs a politically independent organisation that is wholly focused on tackling infectious diseases. If the WHO is no longer able to serve that function, the money should be redirected to one which can.”
ENDS
Notes to editors
For media enquiries, please contact Annabel Denham, Director of Communications: 07540770774.
Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, is available for further comment.
For more on the WHO:
Trump is right: the rotten World Health Organisation should be reformed or abolished
UK should follow US lead and halt WHO funding, says IEA expert
The mission of the Institute of Economic Affairs is to improve understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society by analysing and expounding the role of markets in solving economic and social problems.
The IEA is a registered educational charity and independent of all political parties.
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