WHO Global Preparedness Monitoring Board

The WHO Global Preparedness Monitoring Board is a joint arm of the WHO[1] and the World Bank.[2]

Synopsis

The GPMB are concerned that "at any time, an emerging, lethal, and highly transmissible pathogen might pose a risk of being spread globally because of the interconnectedness of the global population."[3]

Membership

As of September 2019 the GPMB listed its members as:

Commentary

In April 2020, Boyd, Baker and Wilson remarked that the "WHO Global Preparedness Monitoring Board Report 2019 repeatedly notes widespread lack of preparedness for a significant pandemic".[1]

Selected publications
  • Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (September 2019). A World at Risk: Annual Report on Global Preparedness for Health Emergencies (PDF). Geneva: World Health Organisation.
gollark: Any particular improvement might not work, but I would be *very very surprised* if people several hundred years ago just happened to stumble on the optimal court system.
gollark: *An* issue is that sentencing can vary significantly based on judges' arbitrary opinions and how they are feeling. So maybe if you averaged over multiple judges once the facts of the case were determined it would help. Although there are a lot of ways for that to go wrong (messing with the framing of those and such).
gollark: Thank you for your somewhat misspelt tautology.
gollark: I doubt there's literally no way to fix it. Decoupling sentencing and judgement of guilt somehow, maybe.
gollark: Depends on what "psychological evaluation" actually means in practice.

References
  1. Boyd, Matt; Baker, Michael G.; Wilson, Nick (2020). "Border closure for island nations? Analysis of pandemic and bioweapon‐related threats suggests some scenarios warrant drastic action". Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 44 (2): 89–91. doi:10.1111/1753-6405.12991. PMID 32259383.
  2. WHO and World Bank Group Join Forces to Strengthen Global Health Security World Bank, press release of 24 May 2018.
  3. Lee, Vernon J.; Aguilera, Ximena; Heymann, David; Wilder-Smith, Annelies; Lee, Vernon J.; Aguilera, Ximena; Heymann, David L.; Wilder-Smith, Annelies; Bausch, Daniel G.; Briand, Sylvie; Bruschke, Christianne; Carmo, Eduardo H.; Cleghorn, Sean; Dandona, Lalit; Donnelly, Christl; Fall, Ibrahima Socé; Halton, Jane; Hatchett, Richard; Hong, Felicia; Horby, Peter; Ihekweazu, Chikwe; Jacobs, Michael; Khan, Kamran; Lin, Yijun; Leung, Gabriel; Low, Constance; McDonald, Bethan F.; Memish, Ziad A.; Morhard, Ryan; et al. (2020). "Preparedness for emerging epidemic threats: A Lancet Infectious Diseases Commission". The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 20 (1): 17–19. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30674-7. PMC 7158988. PMID 31876487.
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