Global & Disaster Medicine

UN Panel: The world underestimates the risk of a health threat worse than Ebola

February 10th, 2016

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The panels three top-priority steps:

  1. Creation by the World Health Organization (WHO) of a new “Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response” that has real command and control capacity and can access the personnel and resources it needs to respond.
  2. Countries should meet their required International Health Regulations capacities, and those that aren’t able should receive global support to implement them, the panel advised.
  3. Provide financing in three areas: helping countries meet their IHR obligations, funding the proposed new WHO emergency center, and supporting the research and development of vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics.
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