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The history of global health organizations [timeline]

Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?

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Established in April 1948, the World Health Organization remains the leading agency concerned with international public health. As a division of the United Nations, the WHO works closely with governments to work towards combating infectious diseases and ensuring preventative care for all nations. The events included in the timeline below, sourced from Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?, show the development of global health organizations throughout history.

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Chelsea Clinton is currently the Vice Chair of the Clinton Foundation and a Lecturer at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia. She completed her D.Phil in International Relations at Oxford University examining the first decade of the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria. She is also the author of It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!

Devi Sridhar is Professor at the University of Edinburgh's Medical School and holds the Chair in Global Public Health. Previously, she was Senior Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government and a Fellow of Wolfson College.

Both are authors of Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?.

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