Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-28-2021
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the fractured and inadequate state of national and global health law and institutions, revealing deeply embedded inequalities. In response to a World Health Assembly resolution proposing a special session to consider the benefits of developing a WHO convention or other international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response, the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) convened 30 of the world’s leading authorities on global health law, financing, biomedical science, implementation, and emergency response along with leaders from prominent international organizations deeply engaged in responding to the pandemic. This meeting was followed by regional consultations convened in Africa, Latin America-Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. The O’Neill Institute/FNIH also held a consultation with civil society representatives. This article is a concise, edited excerpt of the report of those meetings, outlining the options for such an international instrument.
Publication Citation
Think Global Health, November 28, 2021. This is a concise, edited excerpt from the report Legal Tools for Pandemic Preparedness: WHO Collaborating Center Support for New Coordinating Mechanisms, November 2021.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Gostin, Lawrence O.; Klock, Kevin A.; Halabi, Sam F.; Gottschalk, Katie; and Ginsbach, Katherine, "No Future but a Shared Future" (2021). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2420.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2420