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Description

This public event serves as a moment to pause and reflect over more than two years of negotiations within the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body to draft and negotiate a WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response and the Working Group on Amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005).

The event's primary objectives are to assess the progress made, to shape political momentum as we approach the culminating stages of these crucial negotiations, and to further trust among stakeholders leading up to the May 2024 World Health Assembly.

The agenda includes a keynote address by Dr. Mike Ryan, Deputy Director General and Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, of the World Health Organization (WHO), followed by a high-level, multi stakeholder panel featuring senior government officials, civil society members, and independent experts.

A light lunch will be served ahead of the event from 12:00-12:30 in the atrium of Petal 2 (ground floor, Geneva Graduate Institute).

KeYnote address:

• Dr Mike Ryan | Deputy Director General and Executive Director, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO)

Speakers:

• Precious Matsoso | Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body
• Ashley Bloomfield | Co-Chair of the Working Group on Amendments to the International Health Regulations
• Ambassador Daka | Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva
• Ambassador Gorely | Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Australia to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva
• Shanchita Haque | Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Bangladesh to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva
• Americo Beviglia Zampetti | Minister Counsellor, Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva
• Bente Angell-Hansen | GPMB Board Member

Moderated by Sylvie Briand | Executive Director, Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, and by Eloise Todd | Executive Director and Co-founder, Pandemic Action Network

Organised by

The Governing Pandemics Initiative, the International Geneva Global Health Platform, Global Preparedness and Monitoring Board (GPMB) and Pandemic Action Network (PAN).