Reading the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board's 2019 report. Remember #GroHarlemBrundtland (PM Norway, then Director-General @WHO)? She had vital advice that could have prevented #COVID19. Yet, not seeing more attn to the @TheGPMB's 7 recommendations: apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/an…
1] Each nation must implement binding obligations under the International Health Regulations of 2005, prioritize & dedicate resources & recurrent $$ for preparedness; integral to national & global security; universal health coverage. Progress indicators due Sept 2020.
2] Countries and regional organizations must lead by example. G7, G20, G77, & regional intergovernmental organizations must adhere to political & $$ commitments for preparedness & agree to routinely monitor progress during their annual meetings.
3] All countries must build strong systems, w/ national high-level coordinator w/ authority & political accountability to lead whole-of-gov't & whole-of-society approaches & routinely conduct multisectoral simulation exercises to establish & maintain effective preparedness.
4] Nations, donors & multilateral insts must prep for worst. A pandemic d/t a lethal resp pathogen= extra needs. All must invest in innovative vaccines & therapies, antivirals, non-pharma & surge manufacture; system for international sharing genome sequences of new pathogens.
5] Finance insts must link preparedness w/ $$-risk planning. IMF & World Bank must integrate explicit commitments to preparedness into economic risk & institutional assessment, so to mitigate the severe economic impacts of a national or regional epidemic &/or global pandemic.
6] Donors, inter'l financiers, global funds & philanthropies must⬆️funding for poorest & most vulnerable countries, assist greater/earlier access to the @UNCERF, view health security as joint responsibility & global good; fund World Bank Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility.
7] @UN Sect-Gen, @WHO & UNCHAs: ⬆️coordination, clearer systemwide roles, esp response strategies in health emergs; include routine simulation exercises. WHO should mobilize wider communities earlier in outbreaks, pre-Public Health Emergency of International Concern declared
8] That advice to world leaders from the @gpmb, which warned in 2019, pre-#COVID19: "The world is at acute risk for devastating regional or global disease epidemics or pandemics that not only cause loss of life but upend economies and create social chaos." apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/an…
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