The adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement by the World Health Assembly on 20 May 2025 was a landmark moment in global health ...

However, it still falls far short of addressing the scope and scale of human rights violations that occurred during and because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The treaty will enter into force when at ...

The Conversation asked Nicole Hassoun, a professor at Binghamton University and executive director of Global Health Impact, to explain the pandemic accord, its prospects for advancing global health, ...

The negotiations for a global pandemic treaty began in December 2021, at a time when the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 was spreading across the world and producing a massive new surge of COVID-19 ...

On March 20, members of the World Health Organization adopted the world's first pandemic agreement after three years of "intensive negotiations." The United States did not participate.

WHO is developing new tools and innovative partnerships to boost countries' defenses against future pandemics, including real ...

The adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement marks a pivotal moment in global health governance,1 particularly through the inclusion of the One Health approach. This holistic approach, integrating human ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has accomplished important work in its relatively long lifespan for an international ...

The stark lessons of the COVID-19 crisis fuelled our collective resolve to forge a more robust and equitable framework,” said ...

More than 120 countries vote in favour to ensure that drugs, therapeutics and vaccines are globally accessible when the next pandemic hits.

Read about comments made by former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark and ICN president Dr Pamela Cipriano on pandemic ...