{"id":3728,"date":"2025-11-26T20:51:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2025-11-26T20:51:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T20:51:51","slug":"huge-staff-cuts-at-who-will-leave-world-less-healthy-and-safe-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/11\/26\/huge-staff-cuts-at-who-will-leave-world-less-healthy-and-safe-experts-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge staff cuts at WHO will leave world &#8216;less healthy and safe&#8217;, experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Experts are cautioning that the World Health Organization (WHO) will be significantly less effective at tackling disease outbreaks due to massive staff reductions. The WHO is planning to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce, totaling over 2,000 jobs, by mid-2026. These cuts are largely aimed at global and Africa-based staff, directly reducing the agency&#8217;s ability to coordinate responses to future pandemics. Critics argue that this diminished capacity severely impacts global health security at a time of increasing health threats worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nov 19, 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/nov\/19\/huge-cuts-to-staff-at-who-will-leave-world-less-healthy-and-less-safe-experts-warn\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts are cautioning that the World Health Organization (WHO) will be significantly less effective at tackling disease outbreaks due to massive staff reductions. The WHO is planning to lose nearly a quarter of its workforce, totaling over 2,000 jobs, by mid-2026. These cuts are largely aimed at global and Africa-based staff, directly reducing the agency&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":3731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-pandemics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}