Author name: Christine McNab

Former Independent Panel Co-Chairs Call on Political Leaders to Urgently Bring Fragmented Reform Efforts Together GENEVA, NEW YORK –18 May 2022  One year after the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response recommended an urgent, evidence-based transformation of the international system to manage pandemic threats, the former Co-Chairs warn that despite having a roadmap and the know-how, […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Continues call for urgent redistribution of surplus vaccine doses The Co-Chairs of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response are welcoming the announcement by American, French, and German development finance institutions and the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group for support to strengthen vaccine and pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity in Africa.  Currently, there