Pandemic treaty needs to start with rethinking the paradigm of global health security
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Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Paulo Buss, Alicia Ely Yamin
The Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness released on 11 May adds to the mounting calls for a new Pandemic Treaty that would address gaps in the global governance of threats to global health security. The emerging debate has quickly turned to focus on questions of structure and forms a United Nations treaty or a framework convention under the auspices of the WHO, and verification and enforcement mechanisms as well as on issues of process regarding who will have voice and how the negotiations will proceed. But we must not lose sight of its purpose and key objectives, and what we mean by ‘global health security’. Indeed, the treaty discussions provide an opportunity and an imperative to rethink the paradigm of global health security that has shaped the current international response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The prevailing paradigm is
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