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Health security capacities in the context of COVID-19 outbreak: an analysis of International Health Regulations annual report data from 182 countries

open access: yesLancet, The, 2020
Background Public health measures to prevent, detect, and respond to events are essential to control public health risks, including infectious disease outbreaks, as highlighted in the International Health Regulations (IHR).
Stella Chungong
exaly   +2 more sources

The International Health Regulations (2005)

International Organizations Law Review, 2019
The World Health Organization (WHO) is obligated to pursue the control and eradication of infectious disease. This mandate was enshrined in the 1946 constitutive treaty and has been repeatedly reinforced by World Health Assembly resolutions, programmes, and campaigns.
A. Kamradt-Scott
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One Health and Pathogen Sharing: Filling the Gap in the International Health Regulations to Strengthen Global Pandemic Preparedness and Response

International Organizations Law Review, 2022
The covid-19 pandemic and other major public health emergencies of international concern occurred in the last 20 years remind us of the close interconnections between human, animal, and environmental health and the need for collaborative and ...
S. Negri, Mark Eccleston-Turner
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Preparing for the Next Pandemic: the International Health Regulations and World Health Organization during COVID-19

Yearbook of International Disaster Law Online, 2021
In this chapter we will focus on how the current IHR have limited utility during a pandemic, most notably in respect of a coordinated approach among states and international institutions and across international legal regimes to deliver the assets that ...
G. Burci, Mark Eccleston-Turner
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The International Health Regulations 10 years on: the governing framework for global health security

open access: yesLancet, The, 2015
The World Health Organization (WHO) and its global health security treaty, the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) have lost the world's confidence after the West African Ebola epidemic. The epidemic led to several high-level reviews of the IHR
Lawrence O Gostin, Eric A Friedman
exaly   +2 more sources

Updating the International Health Regulations

Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, 2005
First adopted in 1951, the International Health Regulations (IHR) provide the international legal framework for efforts to prevent and control the cross-border spread of communicable diseases. In 1995, after outbreaks of emerging infections had rendered the IHR increasingly obsolete, the 192 member states of the World Health Organization (WHO ...
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One Health operations: a critical component in the International Health Regulations Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.

Revue scientifique et technique, 2019
Under the International Health Regulations (IHR, 2005), a legally binding document adopted by 196 States Parties, countries are required to develop their capacity to rapidly detect, assess, notify and respond to unusual health events of potential ...
S. de la Rocque   +19 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The International Health Regulations

2010
The International Health Regulations (IHR) is the only international legal treaty that explicitly regulates a state’s obligations to the international community on the spread of infectious diseases. The IHR empowers the World Health Organization (WHO) to act as the central repository of all required disease surveillance information, and it details the ...
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