Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework (2016): Report

Overview

The Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework was reviewed by the 2016 PIP Framework Review Group after five years of implementation. The Review addressed the following questions: 

1. What are the achievements since the PIP Framework was adopted?
2. Has implementation of the PIP Framework improved global pandemic influenza preparedness, including interpandemic surveillance, and capacity to respond?
3. What are the challenges, and possible ways of addressing them?

The Review Group’s report was considered by the Seventieth World Health Assembly in 2016 which adopted decision WHA70(10), requesting the Director-General inter alia, “to take forward expeditiously the recommendations in the report of the 2016 PIP Framework Review Group” and “to report to the Seventy-First World Health Assembly, on progress in implementing this decision, including by indicating the status of the response to the recommendations contained in the report of the 2016 PIP Framework Review Group”.