Germán Velásquez2026-03-242026-03-242022978-3-319-69623-1048https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89125-1https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-030-89125-1http://bibliovirtual.umar.mx:4000/handle/123456789/2005Libro electrónicoThis open access book is a collection of research papers on COVID-19 by Germán Velásquez from 2020 and early 2021 that help to answer the question: How can an agency like the World Health Organization (WHO) be given a stronger voice to exercise authority and leadership? The considerable health, economic and social challenges that the world faced at the beginning of 2020 with COVID-19 continued and worsened in many parts of the world in the second-half of 2020 and into 2021. Many of these countries and nations wanted to explore COVID-19 on their own, sometimes without listening to the main international health bodies such as WHO, an agency of the United Nations system with long-standing experience and vast knowledge at the global level and of which all countries in the world are members.en-USBook