Thread by @sudhvir

I am delighted to continue to serve the Co-Chairs of the @TheIndPanel, @HelenClarkNZ & @MaEllenSirleaf as an advisor and coordinator of the Panel's follow up work. The Panel produced a series of papers ‘#COVID19: Make it the Last #Pandemic’ for the WHA:

theindependentpanel.org

We now have the opportunity to work together with govts, civil society & international agencies on the implementation of a package of recommendations to help end the current pandemic and to ensure we centre equity, leadership and multisectoral responses to future health threats.

Key recommendations include:
- the urgent redistribution of vaccine doses, diagnostics & therapeutics to low-income countries, scaling up of technology transfer and manufacturing capabilities, and developing a ‘global public goods’ model to pandemic tools 💉

- a stronger, more authoritative and more sustainably financed World Health Organization 🌐

- a pandemic treaty / framework convention to strengthen equity and accountability and fill gaps in the legal framework ⚖️

- a political declaration of the UN #GeneralAssembly establishing a leader level ‘#GlobalHealth Threats Council’ to strengthen political commitment 🇺🇳

- a dedicated financing mechanism for pandemic preparedness & response based on an 'ability-to-pay' burden sharing formula 💰

Through this role I was very pleased to brief the G20 Finance summit hosted by the Italian government last week on the reform agenda. You can find our statement here:
theindependentpanel.org/remarks-given-…