These are the additional comments to the WHO Public Hearing on a possible WHO treaty or other instrument on pandemic preparedness and response (KEI also provided oral testimony at the hearing, and filed earlier comments here). Luis Gil Abinader –… Continue Reading
The World Health Assembly’s adoption of a decision [link] to launch intergovernmental negotiations on a WHO pandemic treaty signaled the intent of WHO member states to consider deep consequential reforms in the global pandemic response. KEI is among those who… Continue Reading
After two weeks of intense negotiations, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) have finally agreed to compromise text on a decision (The World Together: Establishment of an intergovernmental negotiating body to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, SSA2/CONF./1)… Continue Reading
Update: On 28 October 2021 the Zero Draft Report of the Member States Working Group on Strengthening WHO Preparedness for and Response to Health Emergencies to the special session of the World Health Assembly was published with the Document number… Continue Reading
In the wake of the damage wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization’s World Health Assembly established a Working Group on Strengthening WHO Preparedness and Response to Health Emergencies (WGPR) in May 2021 with the following mandate: to… Continue Reading
Ahead of the 74th World Health Assembly, Health Action International, Knowledge Ecology International, and Medicines Law & Policy will be co-hosting a discussion with a high-level panel on what a pandemic response treaty should say about the sharing of rights… Continue Reading