The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
 The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response(COVID-19 Task Force)    | |
|---|---|
| Formation | September 2020 |
| Founder | World Health Organization |
| Extinction | May 2021 |
| Membership | •  Helen Clark• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf • Mauricio Cárdenas • Aya Chebbi • Mark Dybul • Michel Kazatchkine • Joanne Liu • Precious Matsoso •  David Miliband• Thoraya Obaid • Preeti Sudan •  Ernesto Zedillo• Zhong Nanshan |
Not to be confused with other similarly-named COVID-19 Task Forces.
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response[1]
Own words
The mission of the Independent Panel was to provide an evidence-based path for the future, grounded in lessons of the present and the past to ensure countries and global institutions, including specifically WHO, effectively address health threats.It did so by providing a fresh assessment of the challenges ahead, based on insights and lessons learned from the health response to COVID-19 as coordinated by WHO as well as previous health emergencies.[2]
Founders
The Independent Panel was established by the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General.[3]
Conclusions
Its final report, published in May 2021, it recommendations included[4]:
- Establish a high-level Global Health Threats Council led by Heads of State. Adopt a Pandemic Framework Convention, and Government.
- empower WHO to take a leading, convening, and coordinating role in operational aspects of an emergency response to a pandemic,
- Resource and equip WHO Country Offices sufficiently to respond to technical requests from national governments to support pandemic preparedness and response
- All national governments to update their national preparedness plans against targets and benchmarks to be set by WHO within six months
- The IMF should routinely include a pandemic preparedness assessment, including an evaluation of economic policy response plans
- WHO to establish a new global system for surveillance, using state-of-the-art digital tools
- Future declarations of a public health emergency of international concern should be based on the precautionary principle
- Establish stronger regional capacities for manufacturing, regulation, and procurement of needed tools for equitable and effective access to vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, and essential supplies, as well as for clinical trials.
- Create an International Pandemic Financing Facility to raise additional reliable funding for pandemic preparedness
- Heads of State and Government to appoint national pandemic coordinators who are accountable to them, and who have a mandate to drive whole-of-government coordination for pandemic preparedness and response.
Known members
5 of the 13 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Helen Clark | WEF supported NZ politician |
| Michel Kazatchkine | Co-signed the Document:Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19 |
| David Miliband | UK politician |
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | Liberian politician |
| Ernesto Zedillo | President of Mexico 1994-2000. Since leaving office, he has been in the pay of corporations to further globalist agendas. In 2020, he joined the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR), an "independent" group examining how the WHO and countries handled the COVID-19 pandemic. |
References
- ↑ https://theindependentpanel.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Summary_COVID-19-Make-it-the-Last-Pandemic_final.pdf
- ↑ https://theindependentpanel.org/about-the-independent-panel/
- ↑ https://theindependentpanel.org/about-the-independent-panel/
- ↑ https://theindependentpanel.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Summary_COVID-19-Make-it-the-Last-Pandemic_final.pdf
