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Challenges and Prospects for the Intergovernmental Negotiations to Develop a New Instrument on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2023

Steven Solomon
Steven Solomon*
Affiliation:
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
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Abstract

As Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) meet in an International Negotiating Body (INB) to negotiate a legally binding agreement on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response for submission to the 77th World Health Assembly in May 2024, this column reflects on creative but pragmatic and complementary means that could be employed in the short timeframe allotted for this important global health law negotiation.

Keywords

World Health OrganizationWorld Health AssemblyIntergovernmental Negotiating BodyPandemic TreatyCOVID-19
Type
Columns: Global Health Law
Information
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 50 , Issue 4: Health Justice: Engaging Critical Perspectives in Health Law and Policy , Winter 2022 , pp. 860 - 863
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© 2023 The Author(s)

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Footnotes

About This Column

Lawrence O. Gostin and Benjamin Mason Meier serve as the section editors for Global Health Law. Professor Gostin is University Professor at Georgetown University and the Founding Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law Center and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. Professor Meier is a Professor of Global Health Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Scholar at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. This column will feature timely analyses and perspectives on law, policy, and justice in global health.

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