A draft pandemic treaty negotiated at the World Health Organisation (WHO) leaves health policy to national governments, ...

The pandemic treaty is only the second health-specific treaty of its kind, the other being the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, adopted 22 years ago.

On March 20, 2025, members of the World Health Organization adopted the worlds first pandemic agreement, following three years of "intensive negotiations launched by governments in response to the ...

The adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement in May, 2025, marks a historic, if imperfect, milestone in global health governance.1 For African countries, which bore a disproportionate burden during the ...

If fully implemented, the pandemic treaty will help protect Australians from future pandemics, including through faster access to health products and reduced competition for limited global supplies.

As countries overwhelmingly passed a WHO global pandemic agreement, top U.S. health official Robert F. Kennedy Jr. invited states to reject the “moribund WHO.” ...

The adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement marks a pivotal moment in global health governance,1 particularly through the inclusion of the One Health approach. This holistic approach, integrating human ...

Negotiators are meeting in Geneva this week to thrash out a pandemic treaty aimed at ensuring the flaws that turned Covid-19 into a global crisis could never happen again.

The WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a panel of 27 independent, international, ...

Even as the US, led by President Donald Trump, withdrew from global health engagements through a petulant exit from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the ...

Pandemic treaty In December 2021, countries decided to start drafting an accord on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, to help avert a repeat of the failings exposed by Covid.

The startup Gigablue announced with fanfare this year that it reached a historic milestone: selling 200,000 carbon credits to ...