Strengthening Global and National Governance for Gender Equality in Health Emergencies
An international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response should advance gender equality through inclusive global and national governance.

The broken world in which we find ourselves underscores the imperative of reflecting on how lawmaking can be used to advance scientific innovation.

WHO has an opportunity to advance extraterritorial obligations under the right to health as an international legal basis for global solidarity.

A new pandemic instrument should explicitly embrace the three emerging global regulatory standards of due diligence, due regard, and regulatory coherence.

An innovative pandemic treaty could become a transformative model of global solidarity in the face of common threats.

The state-centric infectious disease regime violates the fundamental principle of how contagious diseases spread within and across countries.

The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated how “Global Health Security” is triggered when new diseases reach, or threaten to reach, the global north.

This symposium was convened to shed light on the inequities and imbalances exposed by global pandemic response.
