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Express grave concern the opportunity is being wasted
9 July 2023
We write, with bluntness and urgency, as we are gravely concerned that the opportunity presented by the High-Level Meeting and …
Leaders’ actions between health emergencies have direct impact on response to next pandemic threat
18 May 2023 As G7 leaders meet in the coming days, we call on leaders at the …
9 May 2023
Good morning. My name is Dr. Joanne Liu.
In September 2014, here at the UN I appealed for a global response to the Ebola outbreak in West …
A Statement from H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the Rt Hon. Helen Clark on the end of COVID-19 as a public health emergency of international concern
The COVID-19 global emergency has …
Must consider six essential areas: political leadership, international rules, sustained financing, equitable countermeasures, an authoritative WHO, independent monitoring
As global efforts to ensure pandemic readiness and response enter a critical new …
We must act on the lessons of our collective failure to stop the threat of COVID-19 from becoming a pandemic. We need the political will, globally, to do this. When …
We must act on the lessons of our collective failure to stop the threat of COVID-19 from becoming a pandemic. We need the political will, globally, to do this. When …
We must act on the lessons of our collective failure to stop the threat of COVID-19 from becoming a pandemic. We need the political will, globally, to do this. When …
Co-Chairs of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response say UNGA political declaration is required to help bring necessary cohesion to system transformation
2 September 2022
We welcome the …
Submitted to the World Bank FIF White Paper consultation process by the Co-Chairs and former members of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response and its Secretariat
1 June …
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 …
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 – …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
On the 17th of August 2021, the governments of the United States of America and Norway convened an intergovernmental roundtable. These host countries invited Co-Chair Helen Clark to share remarks …
Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia, and Rt Hon. Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, today briefed Member States at the United Nations General Assembly …
At the UNAIDS High Level Meeting, Co-Chair The Rt Hon. Helen Clark gave the following statement on behalf of the Co-Chairs.
1. Your excellencies, distinguished delegates, it is a privilege to …