The World Health Organization needs to craft and adopt an international pandemic regulation

We need an international pandemic regulation that will bring about an effective, agreed-upon response to both the current and next pandemic.

While we cannot know when, where, or how the next pandemic will come about, we still have the ability to choose how we, as part of a global community, will prepare for and respond to future threats, write Bartha Maria Knoppers, Daniel Turp, and Michael J.S. Beauvais.Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY Bartha Maria Knoppers, Daniel Turp, and Michael J.S. Beauvais

February 17, 2022

The United Nations and the World Health Organization (WHO) were born out of a watershed moment following World Word II, created to be ready institutions for the global community in times of crisis. Unfortunately, the WHO was ill-prepared to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic when it fanned out across the ...

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