Implications from COVID-19 for future pandemic global health governance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Limitations of current global health governance revealed during the COVID-19 pandemic can inform the ongoing deliberations of an international treaty on pandemics.

Objectives

To report on WHO definitions for governance and the enforcement of treaties in the context of a proposed international treaty on pandemics.

Sources

This narrative review was based on keyword searches related to public health, global health governance, and enforcement in PubMed/Medline and Google Scholar. Snowballing for additional articles followed the keyword search review.

Content

WHO lacks a consistent definition of global health governance. Moreover, in its current state, the proposed international treaty on pandemics lacks articulated compliance, accountability, or enforcem

SUBMITTER: Lazarus JV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10065870 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature