Graduate Institute - Global Health Centre "The Global Health Centre's Governing Pandemics Initiative just published its fourth Snapshot issue. Following the 77th World Health Assembly (WHA)’s endorsement of a delay of up to one-year for finalising a Pandemic Agreement, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) is set to resume its work with a two-day session on 16-17 July 2024.
INB member states will be facing two potentially contentious procedural issues, as well as thorny debates over the resolution of substantive matters including: a system for Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS); references to One Health; and a formula assuring more equitable access to pandemic health products, where wide gaps remain. The debate around these outstanding issues is a focus of this latest issue, which also unpacks the WHA-approved amendments to the International Health Regulations and their meaning. Read!"
