"How Gates Foundation-Backed Consultants Distort Global Health Work" by Steve Dubb (December 17, 2019)
Source: NRQ (Nonprofit Quarterly) Thanks to Maxwell for suggesting this article for re-posting. December 13, 2019; Vox The World Health Organization , write Julia Belluz and Marine Buissonniere in Vox, has worked with six consultant groups as part of its current round of “transformation.” The consultancy firms— McKinsey , BCG , Deloitte, Preva Group, Seek Development, and Delivery Associates—cost the international organization a combined $12 million, “at least a quarter of which has been paid for directly by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ” This, the Vox writers add, is unsurprising. “Global health, a field dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of the poor and most vulnerable, has quietly developed a penchant for highly paid management consultants and their business world tools.” Belluz and Buissonniere reached this conclusion after interviewing more than 80 global health leaders and staff, current and former consu...