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class="title-ejil page-title"> <h1>Global Health</h1> </div> <p>Page 1 of 20 </p> <form method="GET" class="ejil-form-advanced-filter" id='adv-cat-filter-ejil'> <input name="filter_cat" value="true" hidden> <h3>Filter category</h3> <div class="advanced-form-element-group"> <div class="advanced-form-element"> <input placeholder="Author" name="cf_author" id='author' value=""> <input hidden type='number' name="author_id" id='author_id' value=""> <div id="author-suggestions-wrapper"> <div class="hidden" id="author-suggestions-container"> <ul id="author-suggestions"></ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="advanced-form-element"> <input placeholder="Tag" name="tag" id="tag" value=""> <input hidden type='number' name="tag_id" id='tag_id' value=""> <div id="tag-suggestions-wrapper"> <div class="hidden" id="tag-suggestions-container"> <ul id="tag-suggestions"></ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="advanced-form-element"> <select name="order"> <option selected value="DESC">Most Recent</option> 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Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) will need more time to reach consensus on critical issues within the international legal framework for pandemic preparedness and response. Key topics, including one health and pathogen access and benefit-sharing, remain under discussion. One approach to ‘supplementing’ the Pandemic Agreement is to adopt additional protocols at future conferences or meetings of the parties. protocols may face prolonged negotiation timelines, with the risk of fragmenting pandemic-related legal obligations if all parties do not ratify them. To mitigate the risk of further fragmentation and delay, WHO Member States may instead update the Pandemic Agreement at a later point in time by incorporating new annexes to it. Since annexes will be an integral part of the main Agreement, any changes or additions to them would be governed by the amending procedures specified in the Agreement. Amending clauses in international treaties vary significantly, often in how amendments are proposed, adopted, accepted, and…</p> </div> </div> <a class="read-more-link hvr-sweep-to-bottom" href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/to-future-proof-the-who-pandemic-agreement-rethink-the-amendment-clauses/">Read more</a> </div> <div class="tease tease-post post-tease-ejil" id="tease-23953"> <div class="post-tease-content-ejil"> <a href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-77th-world-health-assembly-modest-amendments-to-the-ihr-2005-more-expectations-of-the-whos-pandemic-treaty/" class="article-link"> <h3>The 77th World Health Assembly: Modest Amendments to the IHR-2005… More Expectations of the WHO’s ‘Pandemic Treaty’?</h3> </a> <div class="featured-date-and-author"> <p>September 27, 2024 </p> <a class="blog-info-author" rel="author" href="/author/nasiyad"> <p>Nasiya Daminova</p> </a> <a class="blog-info-author" rel="author" href="/author/shisongj"> <p>Shisong Jiang</p> </a> </div> <p>The Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly (‘WHA-77’) was held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 27 May – 1 June 2024. The theme of WHA-77 has been ‘All for Health, Health for All’, with two main hot topics on the agenda: (1) the revision of the International Health Regulations (IHR) from their 2005 version, based on more than…</p> </div> <a class="post-tease-link-ejil hvr-sweep-to-bottom" href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-77th-world-health-assembly-modest-amendments-to-the-ihr-2005-more-expectations-of-the-whos-pandemic-treaty/">Read more</a> </div> <div class="tease tease-post post-tease-ejil" id="tease-23630"> <div class="post-tease-content-ejil"> <a href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/compliance-and-accountability-mechanisms-in-the-2024-revisions-to-the-who-international-health-regulations-2005/" class="article-link"> <h3>Compliance and Accountability Mechanisms in the 2024 Revisions to the WHO International Health Regulations (2005)</h3> </a> <div class="featured-date-and-author"> <p>June 21, 2024 </p> <a class="blog-info-author" rel="author" href="/author/cfoster"> <p>Caroline Foster</p> </a> </div> <p>Since the COVID-19 virus first emerged in China in late 2019 there have been many high-level reviews of how the world could better have tackled this devastating episode, including the report of the Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) report “Make it the Last Pandemic” co-chaired by Helen Clark and Ellen…</p> </div> <a class="post-tease-link-ejil hvr-sweep-to-bottom" href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/compliance-and-accountability-mechanisms-in-the-2024-revisions-to-the-who-international-health-regulations-2005/">Read more</a> </div> <div class="tease tease-post post-tease-ejil" id="tease-22125"> <div class="post-tease-content-ejil"> <a href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/were-in-this-for-the-long-haul-the-end-of-the-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern-due-to-covid-19/" class="article-link"> <h3>“We’re In This for the Long Haul”: The End of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern Due to COVID-19</h3> </a> <div class="featured-date-and-author"> <p>May 8, 2023 </p> <a class="blog-info-author" rel="author" href="/author/pedrovillarreal"> <p>Pedro A. Villarreal</p> </a> </div> <p>Last Friday, 5 May 2023, acting upon advice from an Emergency Committee, the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared under Article 12 of the International Health Regulations (IHR) of 2005 that the spread of COVID-19 no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). 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