Global public health, previously focused on community-based participation and poverty-reduction, has moved over the past 2 decades to a centralized, corporatized paradigm promoting pharmaceutical-based solutions in an increasingly vertical system. This is being justified by a health catastrophe/pandemic preparedness campaign that uses fear and targeted funding to overcome its obvious fallacies. Our ongoing WHO Paradox project looks at the bigger picture behind the headlines by investigating the drivers, the players and the effects of these policies and will suggest solutions to restore the tenets of public health. |