Former Portugal Prime Minister António Guterres was sworn in this week as the ninth Secretary General of the United Nations, bringing a record relevant to global health. Portugal’s decriminalization of drug use in response to the country’s heroin addiction epidemic on Guterres’s watch is deemed a success, as this article notes, But, from his time as UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Guterres also comes with a record, in the view of a Médecins Sans Frontières leader quoted here, of having fallen short in support for the surge of refugees across Europe in 2015.