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The Challenges of the Global Health Governance System in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Current Limitations and Possibilities for Reform

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has awakened latent reflections on the WHO's normative and institutional capacities to respond to pandemics, prompting the international community to rethink alternatives to prevent the reoccurrence of a similar crisis. To this end, this article enumerates suggestions to improve existing mechanisms in the global health governance system, as well as new proposals resulting from a normative and institutional reform of the WHO.

Keywords:
COVID-19; World Health Organization; Global health governance

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