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Description
At the time of the 78th World Health Assembly, this Independent Panel event, in collaboration with the Geneva Graduate Institute's Global Health Centre, will engage key stakeholders in an open conversation on the prospect of delivering pandemic preparedness and response reforms over the next 12-18 months, including delving into the challenges the world suddenly faces, barriers to progress and potential levers for change.
The event will also provide a platform to consider four new policy briefs developed by The Independent Panel on the topics of:
- Pandemic financing in an era of disruption: Invest now or pay a heavy price in the future;
- Stopping outbreaks before they become pandemics: transforming the R&D and manufacturing ecosystem for medical counter measures;
- Accountability and independent monitoring: making the unpopular essential;
- The road to UNGA 2026: positioning for success at the High-Level Meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.
The discussions and outcomes will help to engage key stakeholders around pandemic reforms at a time of dramatic shifts in geopolitics and financing for global health.
This event will include a light lunch at noon, followed by two panel discussions and a Q&A with the audience.
Speakers
- Helen Clark | Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Michel Kazatchkine | Senior Fellow, Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute; Senior Advisor to the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe
- Diah Saminarsih | Founder and CEO, CISDI, Indonesia
- Anders Nordström | Former Ambassador for Global Health at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
- Richard Horton | Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
More speakers will be announced soon.
Organised by
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, and the GHC's International Geneva Global Health Platform.
