School of Politics and International Relations

Dr Sophie Harman, Three words of advice for WHO Africa's new chief

25 February 2015

Experts offer some advice to World Health Organisation’s new regional director for Africa, Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti, starting with recruiting competent staff in the field. “What often happens is that when people in-country are seen as being quite effective, they tend to get headhunted by the headquarters of the institutions that represent them,” said Dr Sophie Harman. “So we see a type of brain-drain among people working in these sectors.”
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