The COVID-19 Pandemic, the Failure of the Binary PHEIC Declaration System, and the Need for Reform
The various proposals all have the goal of encouraging early reporting of, and response to, potentially serious disease outbreaks.

The various proposals all have the goal of encouraging early reporting of, and response to, potentially serious disease outbreaks.
The COVID-19 pandemic has blatantly exposed the flaws of the World Health Organization and its International Health Regulations.
We argue that the human right to participation should extend to permanent seats and votes for civil society and affected communities on governance boards.
The international community must avoid entrenching in international law a system indifferent to right-to-health core obligations.
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.