Jocalyn Clark

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Just before WHA79, IHP editor Kristof Decoster spoke with Jocalyn Clark, international editor of The BMJ, for her new article on the campaign for next Director-General of WHO, which has just kicked off. They had a broader discussion than was able to be included in the BMJ article. Here, we publish a fuller Q&A between these two editors who discussed the qualities needed to lead the organisation in this moment of geopolitical disorder, strained finances, and future planetary health challenges.

Amid global disorder and heightened demands for reform, the campaign for the next director general of the world’s health agency is perhaps its most important ever. Jocalyn Clark reports The term of the World Health Organization’s current boss, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is coming to an end after a nearly 10 year reign. Given constant political upheavals and unrelenting health crises, you would think no one would want the complex job of leading WHO when his tenure ends in August 2027.