The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response has produced a rich series of evidence-based documents which are all available in the document library. Below is a summary of the main documents, reports and publications spanning the original mandate and the Independent Panel’s work today.
Original mandate (2020-2021)
Governance documents
Core documents include the World Health Assembly Resolution which formed the basis for the Panel’s creation terms of reference, the terms of reference and program of work. All of the progress and meeting reports are available in the document library.
Background papers
In developing it’s main report The Panel produced 15 evidence-based background papers including an authoritative chronology of the early response.
- Building on the past
- COVID-19: The authoritative chronology, December 2019 – March 2020.
Explore the multimedia version. - From science to policy: Provision of technical and strategic guidance based on evidence by WHO
- Health systems resilience in managing the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from 28 countries, published in Nature Medicine (2021)
- Access to vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics
- Scaling-up vaccine production capacity: Legal challenges and recommendations
- Access to essential supplies
- Impact on essential health services
- Social costs of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Centering communities in pandemic preparedness and response
- Human rights dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Social and economic impact of COVID-19
- Financing Pandemic Preparedness and Response
- The World Health Organization: an institutional review
- International health law in perspective
Main Report
The Panel presented the main report COVID-19: Make it the Last Pandemic to the World Health Assembly in May 2021.
The report is published in the six official languages of the UN.
Commissioned Peer-Reviewed Publications
The British Medical Journal Collection: COVID-19 Preparedness and Response – Implications for future pandemics. A collection of insights from 28 countries’ COVID-19 responses, informed by the work by the Independent Panel. It offers a roadmap for future health threats, emphasizing equity, community, human rights, and global cooperation. (H. Legido-Quigley, A.S. Jung, V. Haldane et al.; 29 Nov. 2021)
The Lancet: How an Outbreak Became a Pandemic – a chronological analysis of crucial junctures and international obligations in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. An analysis of the Independent Panel’s authoritative chronology to help pinpoint where the International Health Regulations’ obligations were not precise enough, or failed to encourage countries and decision makers to more proactively respond to outbreaks with pandemic potential. (S. Singh, A. Phelan et al.; 8 Nov. 2021)
Nature Medicine: Health systems resilience in managing the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from 28 countries. A comparative analysis of national responses covering governance and financing, health workforce, medical products and technologies, public health functions, health service delivery and community engagement to prevent and mitigate the spread of COVID-19. (V. Haldane, H. Legido-Quigley, et. al.; 17 May 2021.)
Policy brief
The Independent Panel developed a policy brief describing the global architecture for pandemic preparedness and response that would result from implementation of the Panel’s recommendations. The Secretariat also developed a mapping titled From Recommendations to Political Decisions.
No more pandemics! Bearing witness to COVID-19 and committing to a more secure future
This report reflects the voices of hundreds of front-line people the Panel heard from during public meetings. They include women in health, nurses, midwives, people working in human rights, sexual and reproductive health and rights, mayors, and on non-communicable diseases.
Our work today
Follow-up reports
- No Time to Gamble: Leaders Must Unite to Prevent Pandemics a deep analysis of the pandemic reform landscape in June 2024
- Losing Time: End this Pandemic and Secure the Future a six-month progress update in November 2021
- Transforming or Tinkering? Inaction lays the groundwork for the next pandemic a one year assessment of reforms in May 2022
- A Road Map for a World Protected from Pandemic Threats a strategic review of how to strengthen essential global functions in May 2023
Find all of the Independent Panel’s reports, publications and documents in the document library