Report of the Review Committee on the Functioning of the International Health Regulations (2005) during the COVID-19 response

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dc.contributor.authorAguilera, Ximena
dc.contributor.authorSalam Al-Abri, Seif
dc.contributor.authorAnami, Vincent
dc.contributor.authorAnnabi Attia, Thouraya
dc.contributor.authorAramburu, Carmen
dc.contributor.authorBlumberg, Lucille
dc.contributor.authorChittaganpitch, Malinee
dc.contributor.authorLeDuc, James
dc.contributor.authorLi, Dexin
dc.contributor.authorMaksyutov, Rinat
dc.contributor.authorMokhtari Azad, Talat
dc.contributor.authorMoussif, Mohamed
dc.contributor.authorOjo, Olubunmi
dc.contributor.authorOkwo-Bele, Jean-Marie
dc.contributor.authorSaito, Tomoya
dc.contributor.authorAlpha Sall, Amadou
dc.contributor.authorSalter, Mark
dc.contributor.authorSohn, Myongsei
dc.contributor.authorWieler, Lothar H.
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-17T13:45:25Z
dc.date.available2022-02-17T13:45:25Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractIt is just 10 years since the first Review Committee reported to the Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly on the performance of the International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005 during the influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in 2009–2010. Among other observations, the Review Committee on the Functioning of the International Health Regulations (2005) in relation to Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 concluded that: “The world is ill-prepared to respond to a severe influenza pandemic or to any similarly global, sustained and threatening public health emergency”. The post-H1N1 review of the IHR drew particular attention to the many vulnerabilities in national public health capacities, limitations of scientific knowledge, difficulties in decision-making in the context of uncertainty, complexities in international cooperation and challenges in communication. It also highlighted the need to further strengthen the WHO Secretariat’s internal capacity to respond to a sustained public health emergency of international concern, such as a pandemic. Subsequent public health efforts were directed towards strengthening health systems and building capacities at the national, regional and global levels to prevent, detect and respond to health emergencies. Today, however, it seems that those efforts were insufficient. Indeed, some of the countries that had seemed best prepared to detect and respond to a deadly virus turned out to be among the least able to prevent or control the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) nationally, internationally or both. Unprecedented levels of international collaboration in response to the pandemic have been seen alongside concerning examples of isolationism. Countries with a strong local public health approach were able to successfully suppress the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Clearly a pandemic caused by a novel pathogen against which neither a vaccine nor effective treatment exists can only be controlled by a strong and strategic public health response. Therefore, strengthening public health capacities, alongside the integration of public health within the health sector and across the whole of government, must be a high priority.es
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dc.identifier.citationAl-Abri S, Anami V, et. al. Report of the Review Committee on the Functioning of the International Health Regulations (2005) during the COVID-19 response. WHO’s work in health organization,30 April 2021, https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/a74-9-who-s-work-in-health-emergencieses
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.who.int/publications/m/item/a74-9-who-s-work-in-health-emergencieses
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11447/5536
dc.language.isoenes
dc.sourceWorld Health Organization
dc.subjectCovid-19es
dc.subjectHealth emergencieses
dc.subjectWorld Health Organizationes
dc.subjectRegulationses
dc.titleReport of the Review Committee on the Functioning of the International Health Regulations (2005) during the COVID-19 responsees
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