.@TheIndPanel Co-Chair @MaEllenSirleaf just addressed the #WhiteHouse #UNGA #COVID19Summit & called on leaders to urgently implement the Panel’s package of recommendations.

Read her statement:

theindependentpanel.org/remarks-delive… "Coordinated, global leadership was woefully absent. And global tensions undermined multilateral institutions and cooperative action.

It is clear that the current international system failed to protect us all from this catastrophic pandemic—and it is not fit to prevent another."

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.