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David Bell

Clinical physician, global health consultant, and former Director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund, Head of Malaria and Acute Febrile Disease at FIND, and Medical Officer in infectious diseases at the World Health Organization.
 

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Rethinking Global Health Reform After COVID-19: Legitimacy Before Authority

There is considerable interest in reforming global health governance with a plethora of recent reform proposals from actors such as the Wellcome Trust and Health Architecture Reimagined (HEAR). Moreover, in the aftermath of Covid-19 there have been numerous recommendations issued from a wide variety of multilateral and non-governmental actors s...

The World Economic Forum and the Deus Ex Machina of Disease-X

Public health messaging should provide accurate information so that the public and their leadership can formulate appropriate responses, weighed against society’s competing priorities. Planning should then concentrate resources on areas of greatest need with the expectation that they will achieve the greatest benefit. However, policy can beco...