This document discusses reforms needed for the World Health Organization (WHO). It outlines issues with WHO's mandate, membership, funding, oversight, and travel expenses. Specific problems highlighted include lack of transparency, accountability for funding, and oversight of programs and risk management. The document proposes solutions like increasing performance audits, adjusting the board to include more stakeholders, and enhancing transparency, accountability and oversight of WHO's operations and crisis response.

1. Reforming the WHO
PAUL YOUNG CPA CGA
MAY 6, 2020

2. Paul Young - Bio
• CPA, CGA
• Academia (PF1, FA4 and MS2)
• SME – Risk Management
• SME – Close, Consolidate and Reporting
• SME – Public Policy
• SME – Emerging Technology
• SME – Financial Solutions
• SME – Business Process Change
• SME – Supply Chain Management
Contact information:
Paul_Young_CGA@Hotmail.com

3. Agenda
 WHO – Mandate
 WHO – Membership / Board
 Member countries
 Sweden and COVID19
 WHO Funding
 Oversight
 Stats / COVID19
 Travel Expenses
 Australia and Canada
 USA states
 Other Training/Development
 How to transform the WHO

4. WHO – Mandate
Source - https://www.who.int/about

5. Board Members
Source - https://apps.who.int/gb/gov/en/composition-of-the-board_en.html
Best Healthcare System Ranking

6. Member Countries
Source - https://www.who.int/countries/en/
No Taiwan
WHO praises China, but refuses to discuss
Taiwan
https://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/85/07-
100107/en/index1.html

7. Funding/WHO
Source - https://www.who.int/about/finances-accountability/reports/en/

8. Oversight and Performance Audits
Source – WHO
• Internal audits in the past have show
issues with effectiveness of programs
and/or oversight
• All donors should be asking for more
performance audits as part of
assessing the effectiveness of WHO
programs
• An annual audited risk management
report should be provided including
assessing global risk, crisis
management, etc.
• More work needs to be done in terms
of using data sciences and analytics as
part of managing various programs
with WHO

9. COVID19 and
Sweden
 @acoyne look what I found on
Sweden.
 https://www.nextbigfuture.co
m/2020/04/sweden-was-not-
overrun-without-a-full-
coronavirus-economic-
lockdown.html?utm_source=fe
edburner&utm_medium=feed
&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bl
ogspot%2Fadvancednano+%2
8nextbigfuture%29
 Is this wrong information or
do you just take what
@globeandmail says as the
gospel?

10. Stats and COVID19
Somewhere in the middle is likely the truth

11. USA Funding
Source - https://www.ft.com/content/193453e3-479f-4fef-9234-d0f9f14c5a6e

12. Travel and the WHO
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/05/travel-costs-
outstrips-disease-budget-170522101226365.html or
 This is a lot of money to spend on travel. You would
think an organization that focus on disease
management would put restrictions on travel, right?
 Woeful spending on travel by WHO is another
indicators that WHO needs to be reformed!
Source - https://nypost.com/2019/05/20/world-health-
organization-blew-almost-192-million-on-travel-report/

13. UN Issues and Solutions.
 UN funding - https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/10/1048782 “Cash crisis”
 Corruption issues - https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/12/1052981
 Internal audits/bribery - https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/united-nations-internal-audit-1.3518856
 Failures with the internal control framework - https://www.un.org/press/en/2007/gaab3812.doc.htm
 More needs to be done to set up internal audit program through risk analytics - https://oios.un.org/what-we-
audit
 UN needs to moved forward systemically with performance audits including using technology a part of
delivering performance audit - https://publicadministration.un.org/en/News-and-Events/UN-Cooperation-
with-SAIs
 Countries want oversight on how their money is spent on UN initiatives.

14. USA Governors / WHO
• Florida – COVID 19 -
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-
interactive/2020/may/05/coronavirus-map-of-
the-us-latest-cases-state-by-state
• States opening -
https://globalnews.ca/news/6896966/american-
states-coronavirus-lockdown/
• Michigan -
https://reason.com/2020/04/16/michigan-gov-
gretchen-whitmer-provides-a-lesson-in-what-
states-shouldnt-do-to-stop-a-pandemic/
• New York - https://news.yahoo.com/the-
mistakes-that-turned-new-york-into-an-
epicenter-of-the-coronavirus-epidemic-
090040375.html

15. Justin Trudeau / Canada vs Australia
 I love Australia!
https://amp.smh.com.au/world/a
sia/australia-to-back-taiwan-s-
return-to-the-who-20200429-
p54oaa.html?__twitter_impressio
n=true
 @PattyHajdu @CPHO_Canada
 You could learn a thing or two
from the Aussies!
 @RitaPanahi
Trudeau is also not demanding any oversight of the moneys
as well!
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/why-the-united-
nations-and-its-agencies-like-who-need-to-be-reformed
Trudeau government neither been transparent nor open
when it comes to their government
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/has-justin-
trudeau-been-truly-open-transparent-and-accoountable-
when-it-comes-to-governing-canada
@karen_vecchio

16. Training and Development
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17. What’s should be next for WHO
 More oversight into programs including performance audits
 More accountability and transparency when it comes to management of
programs including crisis management.
 More oversight into risk management including risk management reporting
(mitigation of risks)
 Adjusting the board to include both donors and country representation
 i.e. pharma, technology, health experts, etc.