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The outgoing Director-General of the World Health Organization, Gro Harlem Brundtland, has successfully returned health issues to the international arena. The new Director-General will have to cope with reduced control over funding, debate over WHO's mandate, and the relationships between WHO and other organisations. Despite the broad role described in WHO's constitution, many groups see WHO's ...

The proposed plan consists of three parts: (1) a programme for the promotion of community water fluoridation and other approved methods for the prevention of dental caries; (2) a plan for coordinated study and research into the etiology and prevention of dental caries and related problems; and (3) a plan for an information gathering and dissemination system which is expected to link the prevent...

Professor Lawrence Gostin is the Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he directs the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Professor Gostin is the Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights. He serves on the Director-General’s Advisory Committee on R...