Solidarity in the wake of COVID-19: reimagining the International Health Regulations

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  • Taylor, A.L.
    • Other Affiliation: University of Washington
  • Habibi, R.
    • Other Affiliation: York University
  • Burci, G.L.
    • Other Affiliation: Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
  • Dagron, S.
    • Other Affiliation: University of Geneva
  • Eccleston-Turner, M.
    • Other Affiliation: Keele University
  • Gostin, L.O.
    • Other Affiliation: Georgetown University Law Center
  • Meier, B.M.
    • Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Phelan, A.
    • Other Affiliation: Georgetown University Law Center
  • Villarreal, P.A.
    • Other Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
  • Yamin, A.E.
    • Other Affiliation: Harvard University
  • Chirwa, D.
    • Other Affiliation: University of Cape Town
  • Forman, L.
    • Other Affiliation: University of Toronto
  • Ooms, G.
    • Other Affiliation: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  • Sekalala, S.
    • Other Affiliation: Warwick University
  • Hoffman, S.J.
    • Other Affiliation: York University
Abstract
  • Amid frenzied national responses to COVID-19, the world could soon reach a critical juncture to revisit and strengthen the International Health Regulations (IHR), the multilateral instrument that governs how 196 states and WHO collectively address the global spread of disease.1,2 In many countries, IHR obligations that are vital to an effective pandemic response remain unfulfilled, and the instrument has been largely sidelined in the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest global health crisis in a century. It is time to reimagine the IHR as an instrument that will compel global solidarity and national action against the threat of emerging and re-emerging pathogens. We call on state parties to reform the IHR to improve supervision, international assistance, dispute resolution, and overall textual clarity.
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  • The Lancet
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  • 396
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  • 10244
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  • 82
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  • 83
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  • English
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  • 0140-6736
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  • Lancet Publishing Group

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