Implementation of the Global strategy and plan of action on public health innovation and intellectual property: report on the Member States consultation 2023-2024

Overview

The Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation, and Intellectual Property (GSPA-PHI) was originally developed and approved by the World Health Assembly in 2008, and continued to guide WHO’s work in these areas. The time frame for the implementation of the GSPA-PHI was extended at the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly (2022), with a new mandate in place until 2030. The 75th WHA urged Member States (MS) to reinforce the implementation, as appropriate and taking into account national contexts, of the recommendations of the review panel that are addressed to Member States to the extent they are consistent with the GSPA-PHI, and to identify and share through informal consultations to be convened by the WHO Secretariat at least every two years, best practices related to the implementation of actions within the GSPA-PHI.

Responding to the request made in resolution WHA75.14 (2022), WHO undertook in 2023 and early 2024 a review of the indicators included in the overall programme review of the GSPA-PHI, in consultation with Member States, as well as WHO regional offices and relevant teams in WHO headquarters, and developed proposed revisions to align indicators with the new term of validity of the plan of action, alongside a new implementation plan for GSPA-PHI for the 2024–26 biennium. This document outlines responses to a consultation process conducted between November 2023 and April 2024 to gather Member State priorities for the GSPA-PHI implementation plan for the 2024–26 biennium (an initial deadline for responses of 1 December 2023 was extended in order to accommodate requests for later submissions made by some Member States).

The part of the consultation outlined here was based on the circulation of a consultation document containing questions covering the Elements of the GSPA-PHI, and the Recommendations made by the overall programme review panel of the GSPA-PHI and agreed by Member States in 2017. Questions were designed to be forward-looking and create minimal administrative burden. Questions took different forms: binary (yes/no), multiple options, or open questions allowing free-text responses.