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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 …
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 …
Following discussion on “Item 17” in Committee A, “Public Health Emergencies: Preparedness and Response,” which included discussion on the Independent Panel’s report, Co-Chair H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf delivered the …
Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Thank you, Chair. Your Excellencies, distinguished delegates. At last year’s World Health Assembly, you tasked the WHO Director-General with initiating an impartial, independent, and comprehensive review of the …
On 19 May 2021, the Co-Chairs of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, the Rt. Hon. Helen Clark (former Prime Minister of New Zealand) and H.E. Ellen Johnson …
On 21 May 2021, the Co-Chairs of the Independent Panel, Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the Right Honourable Helen Clark, made the following presentation to the G20 Global Health …
On 12 May 2021, the Co-Chairs of the Independent Panel, Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the Right Honourable Helen Clark, made the following oral presentation of the main report, …
Le panel indépendant pour la préparation et la réponse aux pandémies appelle aujourd’hui la communauté internationale à s’organiser afin de mettre fin à la pandémie de COVID-19 et à adopter …
El Panel Independiente de Preparación y Respuesta a la Pandemia hizo un llamado a la comunidad internacional para poner fin a la pandemia de COVID-19 y adoptar una serie de …
On 12 May 2021, the Co-Chairs of the Independent Panel, Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the Right Honourable Helen Clark, presented the Panel’s findings and recommendations which are published …
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response is today calling on the global community to end the COVID-19 pandemic and adopt a series of bold and essential reforms to …
On May 4th 2021, the Heads of State of Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda and South Africa; the Heads of Government of New Zealand, Singapore, and Sweden; and the Minister of Foreign …