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2 CJGG 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/chnjg2 and id is 1 raw text is: THE CHINESE JOURNAL oal tem. Global BRILL OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 2 (2016) 1-29 Governance NIJHOFF brill.com/cjgg The World Health Organization in Crisis-Lessons to be Learned Beyond the Ebola Outbreak Nadja Meisterhans Medico International, Frankfurt (Germany); Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe (Germany); Johannes Kepler Universitdt, Linz (Austria) nmeisterhans@karlshochschule.de Abstract Blaming the World Health Organization (WHO) for its failures in the Ebola crisis was a common reaction of the media. However, exclusively denouncing the WHO for the spread of Ebola falls short as it does not recognize the structural deficits of those recent governance procedures financing global health that lead to a chronic underfunding of the WHO. Against this background, the article reflects perspectives of a democratic reform of global health funding. It concludes that only the WHO can provide a leader- ship on global health matters, but to do so it depends on states willing to rebuild the WHO's capacities to act. To address the global health crisis properly, the revitalization of WHO's constitutional mandate is critically necessary. The discussion is based on normative legal theory, which argues that processes of globalization have transformed international law into a global rule of law, placing specific duties on states and interna- tional institutions. Keywords WHO reform - Human right to health - Global rule of law - Global governance for health -Legal theory * The research for this article was supported by Medico International. MEISTERHANS, 2016 DOI 10.1163/23525207-12340013 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-NC 3.0) License.

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