Harvard University - Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics; Harvard University - Harvard Law School; Partners in Health; Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) - Center on Law and Social Transformation
Amid frenzied national responses to COVID-19, the world could soon reach a critical juncture to revisit and strengthen the International Health Regulations (IHR), the multilateral instrument that governs how 196 states and WHO collectively address the global spread of disease. In many countries, IHR obligations that are vital to an effective pandemic response remain unfulfilled, and the instrument has been largely sidelined in the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest global health crisis in a century. It is time to reimagine the IHR as an instrument that will compel global solidarity and national action against the threat of emerging and re-emerging pathogens. We call on state parties to reform the IHR to improve supervision, international assistance, dispute resolution, and overall textual clarity.
Taylor, Allyn and Habibi, Roojin and Burci, Gian Luca and Dagron, Stéphanie and Eccleston-Turner, Mark and Gostin, Lawrence O. and Meier, Benjamin Mason and Phelan, Alexandra and Villarreal, Pedro A and Yamin, Alicia Ely and Chirwa, Danwood and Forman, Lisa and Ooms, Gorik and Sekalala, Sharifah and Hoffman, Steven, Solidarity in the Wake of COVID-19: Reimagining the International Health Regulations (June 19, 2020). The Lancet, 396(10244), 82-83, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3791798
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