Amós García Rojas
Former head of the Epidemiology and Prevention Service of the General Directorate of Public Health of the Canary Islands Health Service, former president of the Spanish Vaccination Association (AEV) and until his retirement in 2024 a member of the WHO Standing Group for Europe
Evidently, the departure of the US from the WHO is a clear sign of what many of us are so concerned about: a new world order. The WHO arose out of the need to carry out global analyses of the distribution of diseases, since many health problems have a global impact and we need global strategies to deal with them. To think that in the face of certain diseases we can put up a wall, as between the USA and Mexico, is utter nonsense. But the WHO also has an unquestionable value in terms of defending the health interests of developing countries. When the WHO speaks, it does not speak with the USA, Spain or France in mind, but with all the countries of the world in mind, and many countries unfortunately live in a context of poverty where the WHO is essential to establish global strategies that allow them to avoid suffering excessively harmful consequences in relation to health problems.