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The WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence was established by the Director-General of the World Health Organization and Chancellor of Germany in 2021 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
In May 2021, the panel presented its findings and recommendations to curb the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and prevent future pandemics. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The report called the existing system "unfit for purpose", calling for a pandemic treaty that establishes legal obligations for WHO member states and international organizations during pandemics.
In this vein, and to respond to the shortcomings of international health architecture, the multiple WHO member states called for a new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response, to "foster an all-of-government and all-of-society approach, strengthening national, regional and global capacities and resilience to future pandemics ...
The Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R) is an international initiative to anticipate and prepare for future threats from infectious diseases. GloPID-R is intended to be a means for facilitating communication and collaboration between its member bodies, as opposed to a funding or disaster response entity ...
WHO Global Preparedness Monitoring Board; WHO Goodwill Ambassador; WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence; WHO model list of essential in vitro diagnostics; WHO Surgical Safety Checklist; WHO-CHOICE; WHO-convened Global Study of Origins of SARS-CoV-2; WHO/Health Action International Project on Medicine Prices and Availability; World ...
The new financial intermediary fund (FIF) for pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPR) was officially established by in September 2022, hosted by the World Bank with technical leadership from WHO. [209] In a 2018 lecture in Boston Bill Gates called for a global effort to build a comprehensive pandemic preparedness and response system.
Launch of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, CEPI in 2017 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is a foundation that takes donations from public, private, philanthropic, and civil society organisations, to finance independent research projects to develop vaccines against emerging infectious diseases (EID).
The WHO Pandemic Hub is responsible for several initiatives to strengthen pandemic and epidemic intelligence including the Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources Initiative (EIOS), [33] International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN), [34] Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) and several others. The Hub works closely with Member States, WHO ...