International Framework for Health Emergency Preparedness & Response and UN Summit on Global Health Security
Process and risk analysis
Overview
In its report “A World in Disorder”, the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) called upon the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the heads of international financial institutions to “convene a UN Summit on Global Health Security, with the aim of agreeing on an international framework for health emergency preparedness and response, incorporating the IHR, and including mechanisms for sustainable financing, research and development, social protection, equitable access to countermeasures for all, and mutual accountability”.
We have been asked by the GPMB Secretariat to provide a report addressing the factors that can support or impede the adoption of such an international framework, as well as strategies to address those factors. The present report seeks to visualize, from a process perspective, the main building blocks towards a UN summit and the eventual adoption of an international framework on health emergency preparedness and response, and to raise proposals or point to alternative directions with related risks and opportunities.