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The Panel for a Global Public Health Convention (GPHC) praised today the publication of the final report by the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR) which calls for a new pandemics treaty and reforms of the global public health governance.
The report offers an unparalleled level of analysis on the timeline and key factors that contributed to an inadequate global response to COVID-19, however its recommendations will face a similar challenge to previous attempts to reform global health how to ensure countries implement the recommendations and follow through on commitments to do better next time? This is a thorough report, and we salute the Rt Hon. Helen Clark and Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for their leadership and exceptional commitment to objectivity as co-chairs of the IPPPR and the entire team who worked on the report, said Dame Barbara Stocking, Chair of the GPHC Panel and President of Edward Murray College, Cambridge. We are in ag
May 12, 2021
With the upcoming World Health Assembly at the end of May, and indications that the World Health Organization (WHO) director-general plans to seek a second term in office, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the world’s largest provider of HIV/AIDS care globally, calls on the United Nations Member States to consider and address the many ways in which the WHO did not measure up to the task of protecting the world from COVID-19.
“It is now fourteen months since the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and the world was thrown into chaos. Vaccinations are ramping up, but much too slowly in many parts of the world – and countries like India are on ‘fire’,” said AHF President Michael Weinstein. “Coordinated international efforts to control COVID-19 have been virtually non-existent, raising the question why was the world so unprepared for this pandemic? And more importantly, why did the institution with the primary responsibility of protecting global public health,
AIDS Healthcare Foundation: AHF: Ten Ways WHO Catastrophically Failed the World
With the upcoming World Health Assembly at the end of May, and indications that the World Health Organization (WHO) director-general plans to seek a second term in office, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the world s largest provider of HIV/AIDS care globally, calls on the United Nations Member States to consider and address the many ways in which the WHO did not measure up to the task of protecting the world from COVID-19. It is now fourteen months since the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and the world was thrown into chaos. Vaccinations are ramping up, but much too slowly in many parts of the world and countries like India are on fire, said AHF President Michael Weinstein. Coordinated international efforts to control COVID-19 have been virtually non-existent, raising the question-why was the world so unprepared for this pandemic? And more importantly, why did the institution with the primary
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The Panel for a Global Public Health Convention (GPHC) announces today the publication of a research study titled Global Public Health Convention for the 21st Century in the prestigious Lancet Public Health journal. The paper outlines 10 recommendations on how the world can better prevent and prepare for pandemics like COVID-19 by adopting a robust global public health convention or treaty.
The pioneering study was conducted by a research team at the University of Miami (UM), Department of Public Health Science under the leadership of Prof. José Szapocznik Ph.D. The team compiled the recommendations after gathering and analyzing input from 29 thought leaders in a diverse range of disciplines, including public health, public policy, medicine, diplomacy, and economics. The study received financial support from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and was conducted in collaboration with the AHF Public Health Institute at the University of Miami.
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