2021

Landmark series of COVID-19 peer-reviewed articles provides unparalleled overview of global and national successes and challenges

Nine-paper series commissioned by the Independent Panel and published as a British Medical Journal collection provides a roadmap to end this pandemic and thwart future health threats  29 November 2022 – London   Today an esteemed peer-reviewed journal publishes a collection of Independent Panel-commissioned articles, that show how and why the world and individual countries succeeded or failed […]

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Remarks of the former Co-Chairs of The Independent Panel at the release of Losing Time: End this Pandemic and Secure the Future

Progress six months after the report of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response. This report was released at an open Chatham House event on 22 November 2021. HE Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (in a pre-recorded video) Thank you, Rob Yates and the team at Chatham House for hosting the release of our progress report

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Pandemic reform agenda is moving, but not fast or cohesive enough

Independent Panel former Co-Chairs, Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, provide blunt assessment of ‘uneven’ progress as pandemic continues to cause illness, deaths, economic losses 22 November 2021, LONDON  – Reform on pandemic preparedness and response is underway, but to end this pandemic and prepare for the next global health threat, Heads of State and

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Analysis of COVID-19 Chronology Points to Need for Urgent IHR reforms and a New Treaty to Reduce Pandemic Risk

Geneva/Washington  8 November 2021 As work is underway to reform global governance of pandemic preparedness and response,  a new paper published in the Lancet offers comprehensive and specific ideas for legal reform. This is based on a careful mapping and analysis of the Independent Panel’s authoritative COVID-19 chronology.    Through analysis of the meticulous timeline, the authors, including many

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G20 Summit COVID-19 outcome deeply disappointing

Statement by Former Co-Chairs of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, Her Excellency President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Right Honourable Helen Clark We are alarmed that rather than applying the well-documented lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, the G20 has buried its head in the sand with many words, another task force, and little

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Address delivered by HE Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to the G20 Joint Health and Finance Ministers’ Meeting

October 29, 2021 Your Excellencies, thank you for inviting me to speak today at this important meeting of Ministers of Health and Finance. For almost two years the world has struggled to meet the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.    Today, as the virus continues to spread, the glaring problem is vaccine injustice.  There are

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The former Co-Chairs of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response welcome GPMB call for immediate catalytic action

Today the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), in its annual report, calls for specific and immediate global actions to prevent and mitigate health emergencies.  The former Co-Chairs of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (the Independent Panel) welcome the GPMB’s report and agree that the trajectory of COVID-19 and its health, social, and

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Remarks delivered by HE Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to White House COVID-19 Summit

Madam Vice President, distinguished participants, as a Co-Chair of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, I thank you and President Biden for your decision to host this summit, which I hope will serve as a global rallying cry to put words into action. Covid-19 remains an international disaster, and the burden has fallen

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Remarks given to the G20 Finance Deputies Meeting on behalf of the Independent Panel Co-Chairs

Remarks delivered by Dr Sudhvir Singh I want to extend my appreciation and that of the Independent Panel co-chairs Prime Minister Clark and President Sirleaf to the Government of Italy for hosting this important dialogue. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought home how ill-prepared countries were for a pandemic. The Independent Panel found that most governments were

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High-income countries called on to share COVID-19 vaccines quickly

New York – The former Co-Chairs of the Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR), Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia, and Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, have expressed their deep concern at the slow pace of redistribution of COVID-19 vaccines from high income to low-income countries. “The Independent Panel

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