The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

🔔 Registration OPEN! Join leaders at #UNGA80 on what’s needed to rebuild multilateralism + galvanise leadership, action, & investment for the interconnected threats of our time💥
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📅 Don't miss our #UNGA80 side event where leaders will discuss rebuilding multilateralism & galvanize ACTION to tackle interconnected threats. Hosted by
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📌JOIN US at #UNGA80! @panaction.bsky.social, @theindpanel.bsky.social, @theelders.bsky.social, @africaeuropefdn.bsky.social, @ranafrica.org's
Sept. 23 side event will bring together leaders around rebuilding multilateralism & galvanising action to tackle interconnected threats. tinyurl.com/y7xrwjea

The Pandemic Agreement is a milestone - now national capitals must work towards implementation.

In this new @thelancet.com Comment, @helenclarknz.bsky.social & @MaEllenSirleaf write about the work required now to secure leadership, finance, equitable access & monitoring.

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Don't miss The Right Honourable @helenclarknz.bsky.social, former Prime Minister of New Zealand and the current Co-chair of The @theindpanel.bsky.social, who will be a special guest on a live recording of the This Week in Global Development podcast.

Update on the Pandemic Agreement - Next Steps Here is what to expect at the World Health Assembly happening later this month - and our take!

📝Update on the Pandemic Agreement - next steps?

🎬 Here is what to expect at the World Health Assembly later this month - and our take!

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On May 20 at the time of #WHA78, join @helenclarknz.bsky.social in Geneva for expert discussions on how the world can be prepared for a pandemic threat in these uncertain times.

Register for in-person at The Graduate Institute, or online!

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Biosecurity: A Priority in the Era of Pandemics and AI | Pandemic Action Network The risks of new pandemic threats are compounding. Zoonotic spillover and uncontained outbreaks are well-known risks that are not yet well enough

Join @panaction.bsky.social & @theindpanel.bsky.social at #WHA78 for Biosecurity: A Priority in the Era of Pandemics and AI — Wed., May 21 — to discuss opportunities + risks in our evolving landscape and next steps to keep the world safe and secure. www.pandemicactionnetwork.org/events/biose...

Will you be @ #WHSNewDelhi2025? Be sure to join
@helenclarknz.bsky.social who will chair a panel exploring what the US withdrawal from global health means for pandemic preparedness and response.

The full program: bit.ly/WHSNewDelhi

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Pandemic Agreement Talks Deadlock Over Technology Transfer – And Keep Going - Health Policy Watch By sunrise on Saturday morning, the entire draft pandemic agreement had been agreed on – bar the vexing question of whether technology transfer related to the

After talking all night, #PandemicAgreement negotiators at #WHO agree on everything but a single section - and a vexing word 'voluntary'. Will they make the new Tuesday deadline?
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@pandemiccenter.bsky.social

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In Final Days Of Pandemic Talks, Countries Urged To Budget For 'Both Bombs And Bugs' - Health Policy Watch Tedros, hastily tying his green tie, urged all countries to “find a balance in protecting their people from both bombs and bugs” as the next pandemic is an

At opening of #INB13 - the final set of pandemic agreement negotiations, Dr. Tedros urged @who.int Member States to “find a balance in protecting their people from both bombs and bugs” as the next pandemic is an “epidemiological certainty." healthpolicy-watch.news/pandemic-agr...

🦠We are down to the wire on the #PandemicAccord.

📜Here is our joint statement to the #INB13 on behalf of @panaction.bsky.social, @theindpanel.bsky.social, the Panel for a Global Public Health Convention, and GPMB.

🌍 We count on Member States to pull together to get this agreement done.

⏰Next week is the final negotiating session for the #PandemicAccord at the World Health Organization in Geneva.

💣Negotiators cannot afford to fail.

🤝 To strike a deal, countries no longer have the luxury of holding tight to narrow national self-interest.

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Trump cuts damage global efforts to track diseases, prevent outbreaks Disease surveillance programs worldwide are suddenly in limbo

“The full scope of the cuts is still unclear, and legal challenges against them continue. Making sense of the chaos “is more challenging than trying to understand what’s going on with the damn diseases themselves,” says epidemiologist Michael Osterholm… the list of affected diseases is long.”

The Lessons Not Learned From COVID-19 Trump’s WHO withdrawal and cuts to research and aid are making it harder to prepare for the next pandemic.

In @foreignpolicy.com, @helenclarknz.bsky.social and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf outline how US withdrawal from global health impacts pandemic preparedness, & what must happen next to protect lives and #preventpandemics.

Tragedies should result in transformational change.

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'We've vanished': U.S. aid cuts leave health workers around the world reeling The cuts to U.S. foreign aid could result in the resurgence of some diseases. They've also forced health workers out of their jobs.

The cessation of a lot of US foreign aid will have enormous consequences on the health of the world's people for years to come. The abrupt, no-notice nature of that move took the devastation next level. www.statnews.com/2025/03/19/t...

WHO issues starkest warning yet on fallout from U.S. withdrawal of aid for global health Breaking: The WHO issued its starkest warning yet on the consequences of the abrupt cessation of U.S. global health funding, saying it is threatening to reverse years of progress worldwide.

Abrupt cessation of US aid funding has plunged programs to fight #malaria, #TB, & #HIV into a crisis, #WHO said Monday. Director-General Tedros said while the US has the right to decide how to spend its money, if it is to withdraw it should do so in a planned way. www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/w...

The Committee is concerned about:
- an epidemiological situation 'worryingly similar' to Nov. 2024
- the co-circulation & risk of mutations
- that mpox could become more severe 'resulting from food insecurity & interruption in the delivery of HIV care due to the freeze of aid.'

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Third meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the upsurge of mpox 2024 Concurring with the advice unanimously expressed by the Committee during the meeting, the WHO Director-General determined that the upsurge of mpox 2024 continues to meet the criteria of a public healt...

The IHR Expert Committee report on the #Mpox public health emergency is now published by @who.int

The Committee heard that the freeze in USAID funds is affecting testing in the DRC, & that the conflict in the eastern provinces were also hindering the response.

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Very good news from Tanzania today, as the Ministry declares the end of the latest Marburg outbreak.

This is the result of hard work and collaboration between partners including Gov't of Tanzania, AfricaCDC, @who.int , @unicef.org, @ifrc.org and the US CDC.

#PreventPandemics

As @who.int Member States work towards a pandemic agreement, @helenclarknz.bsky.social & HE Ellen Johnson Sirleaf join @GPHC_Pane in a call to deliver and

"demonstrate the power & opportunity that comes from int'l cooperation and solidarity.

Failure is not an option."

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As WHO Member States enter informal pandemic agreement negotiations before #INB13 resumes (April 7-11), members of The Panel for a Global Public Health Convention and the @theindpanel.bsky.social call for the "full use of the intersessional period to reach consensus on the outstanding issues."

The result of delayed action was a global health crisis that has led to some 28 million excess deaths, trillions in losses, and social and economic impacts that continue to affect us all.

The world has yet to apply all of the lessons, and #PreventPandemics

Five years ago today, DG DrTedros @who.int characterized the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic.

In its report, @theindpanel.bsky.social described February as a lost month, when countries had been warned of a public health emergency of international concern, and too many delayed action on COVID.

You've tagged the wrong Independent Peter.

As #mpox remains a public health emergency of int'l concern, @ippsecretariat.org reports very little progress on vaccines, diagnostics and treatments in the last 100 days.

⬇️ in the number of preclinical treatments
💉 more vaccines delivered to countries, but roll-out slow

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.@who.int new report on undiagnosed illness in Equateur, DRC.

In Basankusu:
- deaths are ⬇️; w/ more young male deaths
- investigation now focussed on rapid onset bacterial meningitis or chemical poisoning
- local risk moderate, nat'l & global risk low

#PreventPandemics

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The potential human costs to cuts in ODA, acc. to senior USAID staff, reported by @apoorvanyt.bsky.social

- >28,000 new cases of such infectious diseases as Ebola & Marburg annually

- uncontrolled outbreaks of mpox & bird flu, including as many as 105 million cases in the US

#PreventPandemics

In the latest @panaction.bsky.social Playbook: Paradigm shifts in defense spending, U.S. + U.K. aid, #G20 multilateralism ↪️ Playing with pandemic fire 🔥 Africa vaccine and finance sovereignty 🌍 What's next for the pandemic agreement ⁉️ Latest on #H5N1 #mpox & more! mailchi.mp/pandemicacti...

Contrary to Musk’s Claim, Ebola Containment Efforts Were Slowed Then Stopped, Former Officials Say (Gift Article) The contracts financed Ebola screening at airports and protective equipment for health workers, and helped prevent transmission by survivors of the disease, according to a former U.S.A.I.D. official.

Breaking: Hours after Elon Musk reassured Cabinet that efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in Uganda had only been “accidentally canceled very briefly,” the Trump administration terminated at least four of the five contracts for Ebola-related work in that country.

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