I thought you'd never ask. Thank you.
There are a number of them. I'll start with sustainable funding. The World Health Organization now has a funding level that's less than one large U.S. hospital, one-quarter of the amount of the U.S. CDC, and it has a global mandate.
Even worse, of the paltry funds that it has, it only has control of about 25% to 30% of its budget. All the rest is directed to pet projects. No organization can succeed when it's funded at such a low level and when it isn't given discretion over focusing its resources on global priorities.
The second change I would make is just a basic one. The world has the WHO it deserves because it doesn't politically back the WHO. It puts the WHO in the middle of politics and in political fights. I'm working now closely with the WHO, and they're distracted just at the wrong time, so political backing would be the second change.
The third would be to strengthen compliance under the International Health Regulations to give the WHO tools for independent verification to the extent that we can, with state and official reports, partner with countries on the ground to get more clarity and compliance in terms of public health recommendations. I realize that those recommendations themselves have been in dispute.
Then there's the process for declaring a public health emergency of international concern.
I've said earlier that the WHO is not a perfect organization. Sometimes that can be so frustrating, but they are working really hard, and we need to make them the best global health organization we can, rather than tear them down.