At its second meeting, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body to draft and negotiate a WHO convention, agreement or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (INB) decided that the INB Bureau would conduct informal, focused consultations (IFCs) with experts, open to all WHO Member States and relevant stakeholders, on selected key issues.
All IFCs will be fully virtual, with interpretation in all WHO official languages. Each will be chaired by an INB Bureau Co-chair and will have two parts:
- an interactive, moderated roundtable between independent experts during which the moderator will ask questions and stimulate input from and dialogue between the experts; and
- a discussion and reflection session, for Member States and relevant stakeholders, where questions and reflections may be sent through email or the meeting “chat” function.
Four IFCs have been scheduled. The second will focus on operationalizing and achieving equity.
Time and date: 12:00-15:00, 5 October 2022.
Topics to be covered
- Access to pandemic response products and delivery/distribution
- Access and benefit sharing, including genetic sequence data
- Strengthening health systems, including the importance of universal health coverage and primary health care
Chairs: Ms Precious Matsoso, INB Bureau Co-Chair and Mr Roland Driece, INB Bureau Co-Chair
Moderator: Ms Emma Ross, Senior Research Fellow, Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Participating experts
External
- Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija, Co-Chair, African Vaccine Delivery Alliance
- Didier Houssin, President, Assistance Publique – Hopitaux de Paris International and former Chair, Advisory Group of the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Network, and Chair, IHR Emergency Committee for COVID-19
- Rajinder Kumar Suri, CEO, Developing Country Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN)
- Patricia Garcia, Former Health Minister, Professor and former Dean, School of Public Health, Cayetano Heredia University
- Mohga Kamal-Yanni, Senior Health Advisor, People Vaccine Alliance
- Yuanqiong Hu, Senior legal and policy advisor, MSF Access Campaign
WHO Secretariat
- Ahmed Al-Mandhari, Regional Director, WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean
Additional information
Mindful of the informal nature of the IFCs and the goal of stimulating full and frank discussion, the following will apply to all IFC sessions:
- discussions at IFC sessions, including among participating experts, will in no way prejudice the positions of Member States or any other session participants;
- no comment or question presented by session participants, including Member States, during the IFCs, will imply a view or position of Member States or other session participants; and
- expert presentations will be provided solely for the consideration of Member States and will not themselves be sources of input to the Conceptual zero draft.