Editorial: Winter chill of Geneva warmed by the WHO Executive Board

The winter chill of Geneva is warmed in the last week of January every year by the meeting of the WHO Executive Board, which gathers to follow up on decisions of the World Health Assembly and provide guidance and direction to the WHO Secretariat. This year, the Board was faced with a record number of agenda items. Some of these were crucial to the current global public health situation and others to the future of global health and to WHO itself.