Thread by @RoojinHabibi

With #WHA74 approving a late Nov 2021 Special Session to consider a "WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response," I needed a living list of views & recs on what such a treaty should cover 🧵
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Call for a pandemic treaty appears in an op-ed by @eucopresident together with 25+ heads of state & @DrTedros in March. They invoke need to improve inter alia "data-sharing, research, and...production of medical and public health counter measures" who.int/news-room/comm…

Note the *idea* is not new - many academics and experts have previously called for int'l laws on at least some aspects of global health (see more recently @haiknikogosian & @IlonaKickbusch bmj.com/content/372/bm…). March op-ed however marks first significant high-level support

With high-level support apparent, @haiknikogosian & @IlonaKickbusch reflect further on treaty design in April. blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/04/26…

Jorge Vinuales @SuerieMoon @G_LeMoli & @GianBurci next argue the treaty should have a core mandate on "deep prevention," taking a One Health perspective and looking to upstream determinants of infectious disease, incl. linkages b/n health & environment thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Johnathan Duff et al make ten high-level recs, including need to bolster multilateral authority, responsiveness, expertise, financing and enforcement.
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Responding to Duff et al, @SuerieMoon & @IlonaKickbusch emphasize need for treaty to link up with states' "self-interest and material factors," framing shared goals while allowing for "mini-lateral clubs" with differing levels of ambition thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

Examining @TheIndPanel recs to #WHA74, @clarewenham @MMKavanagh @lairene1 @GYamey call for closer attention to a future pandemic treaty's ability to influence state behaviour bmj.com/content/373/bm…

Citing risks of political posturing and national protectionism, @saralmdavis together with leading human rights experts from around the world pen a consensus statement calling for the treaty to "centre on human rights" incl. the right to health blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/05/10…

Among the most detailed thinking on modalities for a pandemic treaty to date, @alexandraphelan & @PillaiPriy's background paper to @TheIndPanel provides an overview of treaty parameters (e.g., Framework Convention? Housed @ WHO?) theindependentpanel.org/wp-content/upl…

And in case of interest: This article nicely sums the diplomatic negotiations that went into setting dates for a Special Session to 'negotiate whether to negotiate' a pandemic treaty twn.my/title2/health.…

More must-reads: a growing team of #globalhealthlaw & human rights experts are calling on states to ensure that a pandemic treaty reconciles legal reqs from both regimes. See: @Judith_Mesquita @BenjaminMMeier & @AKapilashrami in bit.ly/3wLKCv1 & bit.ly/3wHfIUy

Today, we also published a post-#WHA74 opinion piece with @TimFish42 @BenjaminMMeier Ian Seiderman & @shoffmania in @opiniojuris, @ICJ_org & @hhrjournal imploring states to keep the human rights lessons of this pandemic central to negotiations in November

https://twitter.com/hhrjournal/status/1399863357210087430?s=20

A new editorial via @Nature emphasizes need for global data access rules in a pandemic treaty. Also cites @G7's Science Academies statement from March, calling for better 'data readiness' for future health emergencies (bit.ly/2TwneTL)

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The pandemic treaty must shift the 'global health security' paradigm, write @sfparr, Paulo Buss & @AE_Yamin in a newly published piece in @GlobalHealthBMJ, urging us to focus on a mandate for "sharing of technologies and know-how in future pandemics" gh.bmj.com/content/6/6/e0…

In @arabnews, @NgaireWoods & Ok Pannenborg call for grassroots int'l law-making: "[o]ur top-down models and agreements must shape responses that are grounded firmly in local communities and value their engagement, risk ownership and anxieties"
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Tune in 🎧 Kal Raustiala, host of @asilorg's International Law Behind the Headlines podcast, chats with @GianBurci on #pandemictreaty - from filling gaps of IHR to mandate creep risks for @WHO
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In @bmj_latest, @haiknikogosian & @IlonaKickbusch argue pandemic treaty should go beyond filling IHR gaps & find its home via Art 19 @WHO Constitution (not Art 57 IHR). It should be the core instrument for *pandemics* (while IHR remains crucial for PHEICs)
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In @ProSyn, Precious Matsoso, Paulo Buss (@fiocruz_en) & @leighkamore argue that we must look beyond a treaty for pandemic preparedness, to one that is anchored in "principles of equality and human rights," as @fcghalliance has long sought to promote. project-syndicate.org/commentary/pan…

.@DrTomFrieden & @buissonnierem: a #pandemictreaty might include global target akin to 90-90-90 goals for HIV & synergy w mandates beyond @WHO. Most of all, we shouldn't let treaty negotiation stall "action to strengthen national & int'l institutions now" gh.bmj.com/content/6/5/e0…

Been a while since I've updated this 🧵on #PandemicTreaty. Here's a solid perspective by @nithinramakris, raising some prescient points as to why a new framework convention is not what countries in global south need right now: thewire.in/health/why-ind…