The proposed WHO Pandemic Agreement: Ambitious progress or business as usual?

2024/10/15 by Alan Petersen · 1 voice
Business, Management and Accounting · #Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology

paper · pdf · doi:10.55016/ojs/jcph.v1i2.80000

openalex publication_date 2024/10/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO)’s proposal for a Pandemic Agreement, released in April 2024, at first blush, seems laudable (WHO 2024a). The failure of governments to coordinate a response to COVID-19, as implored by the WHO and the United Nations (UN) at the beginning of the pandemic, underlines the urgent need for reform in the global governance of pandemics. This editorial considers: how has the Agreement progressed to date? And will it adequately prepare societies to tackle future pandemics?

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