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Helen Clark and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf urge leadership and continued action now to protect the world from pandemic threats
Geneva: The Co-Chairs of The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response …
A US exit from the World Health Organization will undermine the capacity of the US and the world to be prepared and able to respond to health emergencies
A Statement from …
As H5N1 avian influenza surges in mammal populations and causes new human infections, and mpox is leading to deaths of children, the former Co-Chairs of The Independent Panel for Pandemic …
WHO Member States must now maintain the momentum and adopt an effective pandemic agreement as soon as possible
1 June 2024The former Co-Chairs, active members and advisors to The Independent Panel …
Co-Chairs and members of former The Independent Panel call also for amended International Health Regulations to be adopted this week; and for immediate investment today to make the world safer
26 …
Relevant Stakeholder under “Annex E” and Co-Chair of The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and ResponseOn the draft Negotiating Text presented for INB9 (March 18 – 28 2024)
As WHO Member …
Access to countermeasures, finance, and independent monitoring are essential for success
Signed by Former Co-Chairs and Members of The Independent Panel, the Chair and Members of The Elders, principals of …
Helen Clark spoke in the opening segment as an eminent high-level champion
20 September 2023
Excellencies, Let me congratulate the General Assembly on coming together in this High-Level Meeting on Pandemic …
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 …