While the74th World Assembly concluded with an agreement on the amendments for the International Health Regulations (IHR), the parallel negotiations for the Pandemic Treaty stalled and only a timeline was agreed. What are the lessons of these outcomes of protracted negotiations, running in parallel for over two years to bolster multilateral responses and readiness to pandemics? What were the power structures and dynamics that drove the negotiations and outcomes? What explains the outcomes and the struggles over provisions for equity that were central to these negotiations?
In this session, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr leads a conversation with Priti Patnaik and Suerie Moon, both of whom have been following the negotiations on the ground since their inception.
The event will take place online on 11th July at 17:00 CEST // 11:00 EST
About the speakers
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is Co-Director of the Collective for Political Determinants of Health, and is Professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York.
Suerie Moon, a Collective member, is Professor of Practice and Co-Director of the Global Health Centre, Graduate Institute of Geneva. She leads a research program on innovation and access to medicines.
Priti Patnaik is a journalist and the founding editor of Geneva Health Files, an investigative, inter-disciplinary reporting initiative that seeks to capture power and politics in global health. This independent reporting initiative tracks international health policy as it unfolds in the capital of global health.
About this seminar series
The Collective Conversations is a seminar series organised by the Collective for the Political Determinants of Health. It aims to bring an original and critical lens to global health debates by discussing how the political determinants shape health outcomes.
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