Dr Mike Ryan, the Irish epidemiologist who became synonymous with the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic, has been dropped from the new executive management team at the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The WHO has reduced its management team by half and will have to scale back operations, its director-general said on Wednesday, four months after the United States announced it was leaving the agency and cutting funding.
“To be blunt, we cannot do everything,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a budget committee meeting ahead of the body’s annual meeting next week.
Dr Ryan was only appointed in April last year to the role of WHO deputy-director general.
The 60-year-old also…