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Background
The World Health Organization (WHO), based in Geneva, is looking for a new director-general. It is suffering sharp cuts in donor funding. Swissinfo and the Global Health Centre of the Geneva Graduate Institute are interviewing the candidates.
The key points
On 1 November 2026, Swissinfo published the second episode of this series, devoted to Budi Sadikin. He is currently health minister of Indonesia. He has spent most of his career in finance, as a top executive at the country's biggest bank.
In his view, this experience will help him lead WHO reform. He champions health equity: during a pandemic, emergency treatments should become “global public goods”.
He is counting on his good relations with the United States to encourage Washington to rejoin the WHO. He considers it impossible for any country to protect its population alone during the next pandemic.
Who says what
- Budi Sadikin (Indonesian health minister, WHO director-general candidate): his job is now to make his people “healthy”.
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