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Governance
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WHO PHEIC
A Public Health Emergency of International Concern PHEIC was the highest alert the WHO could issue under the Internation...
Pandemic Treaty
Negotiations for a WHO Pandemic Treaty, formally the WHO Pandemic Agreement, began in December 2021 after COVID 19 expos...
Global Health Security
The Global Health Security Agenda GHSA was launched in February 2014 by the United States and approximately 30 partner c...
Covid Lab Leak
The COVID 19 lab leak hypothesis proposes that SARS CoV 2 accidentally escaped from a laboratory, specifically the Wuhan...
Biosafety Levels
Biosafety levels BSL are a set of containment precautions designed to protect laboratory workers and the environment fro...
Biological Weapons Convention
The Biological Weapons Convention BWC, formally the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Sto...
Dual Use Research
Dual use research of concern DURC refers to legitimate biological research that could be misused to cause harm. The conc...
COVID Sweden
Sweden took a unique approach to COVID 19, avoiding mandatory lockdowns and relying on voluntary measures. State epidemi...
COVID New Zealand
New Zealand pursued an elimination strategy for COVID 19 under Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The country implemented a ...
Operation Warp Speed
Operation Warp Speed was the US government initiative to accelerate COVID vaccine development. Announced in May 2020, th...
COVAX
COVAX, the COVID 19 Vaccines Global Access facility, was co led by WHO, Gavi, and CEPI to ensure equitable vaccine acces...
PPE Shortage
The global PPE shortage during the early COVID pandemic was one of the most damaging failures of pandemic preparedness. ...
Covid Origin WHO
The WHO China joint study on COVID origins conducted in January and February 2021 was criticized for limited access and ...
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness PIP Framework was adopted by the WHO in 2011 after the 2009 H1N1 pandemic revealed i...
Covid Supplies Chain
COVID 19 exposed extreme vulnerabilities in global medical supply chains. China produced around half of the worlds surgi...
Pandemic Exercise 201
Event 201 was a pandemic tabletop exercise hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the World Economic Fo...
Pandemic Clade X
Clade X was a pandemic tabletop exercise hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security on May 15, 2018. The exe...
Dark Winter 2001
Dark Winter was a smallpox bioterrorism exercise held at Andrews Air Force Base on June 22 to 23, 2001, three months bef...
Vaccine Nationalism
Vaccine nationalism describes the tendency of countries to prioritize their own populations over global equitable access...
COVID WHO Tedros
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the WHO since 2017, led the global response to COVID 19. Tedros decla...
IHR 2005
The International Health Regulations 2005 are the binding legal framework for global health security. The IHR require WH...