The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) - the independent body responsible for assessing the state of the world’s preparedness for pandemics and other health emergencies - issued a warning ...

A report compiled by an independent group of experts claims that governments and NGOs are woefully unprepared for the next big pandemic, while subsequently warning of a “very real threat” for a global ...

Global preparedness for the next pandemic is being hampered in part by unequal distribution of research and development efforts among low-, middle- and high-income countries, a new report from the ...

A branch of the World Health Organization on Monday published a pandemic preparedness report that emphasized the need for member states to crack down on misinformation and disinformation in the name ...

It could happen at any moment—a pandemic with the potential to sweep across the globe in just 36 hours, wiping out 80 million people and irreversibly changing society. It would start like any other ...

ISLAMABAD: A global body has warned that the fragile progress to strengthen preparedness made in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic is at risk, and the world’s capacity to deal with a potential new ...

A Joint Statement from Chairs, Co-Chairs, Principals, Members and Advisors to The Elders, The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, ...

Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends, Two years ago, the World Bank and WHO founded the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board out of concern that the world was stuck, as both Dr Brundtland and Dr ...