World Health Organization
About World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) which coordinates responses to international public health issues and emergencies. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and has six regional offices and 150 field offices worldwide. Only sovereign states are eligible to join, and it is the largest intergovernmental health organization at the international level.
On the show — 12 mentions total
Drug makers give the drug a chemical name, but you need a single generic name. That then goes to the World Health Organization. It has to be cleared, because the generic names are usually global these days — it has the same generic name throughout the world to avoid confusion.
from 367: No Such Thing As A Horse Drawn Segway, 2021-04-02 at 00:32:23 · read transcript
Other times World Health Organization came up
After Richard Maitley, TV host on This Morning, gave people a look at his Millennium Cubberd, which was full of tinned food and candles, and he recommended that people stockpiled 10 weeks worth of food for after the Millennium. Oh my God. They got hundreds of calls just because Richard Maitley had done this, and the World Health Organization said that nuclear reactors might be at risk. They've got clocks in them.
84: No Such Thing As A Donkumentary, 2015-10-23 · listen
In France, they have the Dominacion commune francis. In Japanese, they have Japanese-adopted names. All these people then feed it into the World Health Organization who then make the final decisions. In the 90s, there was a problem because loads of names were different all around the world before the WHO kind of got in on this. There was a letter in the BMJ that gave a hundred common drugs where the names was completely different in the UK than what it was in America, just completely different.
No Such Thing As A Horse Drawn Segway, 2021-04-02 · listen
Little nugget about the World War Z movie by the way that was made which is just a cool bit of trivia which is that one of the actors in the movie was Peter Copoldy and Peter Copoldy was cast as a World Health Organization doctor.
No Such Thing As A Chihuahua Dog Sled Team, 2018-05-04 · listen
Millennium cupboard which was full of tinned food and candles and he recommended that people stockpiled 10 weeks worth of food for after the millennium Oh my God and they got hundreds of calls just because Richard Madeley had done this and the World Health Organisation said that nuclear reactors might be at risk.
No Such Thing As A Donkumentary, 2015-10-23 · listen
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