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💥 Take Quick Action! Opportunities to create impact with a quick action are marked with a 💥 throughout the Playbook!
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🌱 The U.S. election results are in, and the global health, public health, climate, and scientific communities among others are preparing for its implications domestically and around the globe. We are gearing up to forge ahead with partners for a resilient future and will be discussing how to respond to the new Administration across future working groups.
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📌 Next Global Working Group. Join our Nov. 20 Working Group for discussion with the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board on their latest report, The Changing Face of Pandemic Risk. We’ll also debrief on the U.S. elections and discuss implications for our Network and priorities. 💥 Sign up for the email list if you’re not already registered!
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Working for a breakthrough
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WHO Member States are back together at the twelfth meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiation Body (INB) (Nov. 4-15) to make progress on a pandemic agreement. With efforts to make this a make-or-break moment for important and contentious priorities, negotiators will be evaluating their progress on Friday (Nov. 8) to reach a decision on Monday as to whether a World Health Assembly could be called in December to finalize the agreement. WHO’s Dr. Tedros opened the meeting noting that “ingredients are in place” to achieve the agreement’s objectives while urging countries to “not allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good or even the excellent.” Despite the rhetoric, progress on core issues for equity — like PABS, financing, tech transfer, prevention, and global cooperation — is slow, with some Member States signaling some doubts and reluctance to meet the December deadline.
Still, advocates — including PAN partners, MSF, and Health Action International — continue to call for consensus building to expeditiously drive action to finalize a meaningful, equitable, and enforceable pandemic agreement. 💥 Quick post. 💥 ICYMI, check out PAN’s Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 recaps for key facts, highlights, and notable expert content. And don’t forget to check back, since PAN will continue to post recaps the rest of the session.
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PAN Executive Director and Co-Founder Eloise Todd and Center for Global Development’s (CGD) Mikaela Gavas penned an article calling on the EU’s institutions and its Member States to learn from recent history and invest more — not less — in partnerships and poverty alleviation. With planning for the next 7-year EU budget underway, the article calls on the Commission to draft a Multiannual Financial Framework for 2028-2034 that is set up for success, not scarcity, and future-proofs its development budget. 💥 Quick post
To advance a strong, long-term EU budget, more than 40 civil society organizations have signed up to a new policy paper outlining how the EU can achieve A Budget that Delivers for People and Planet. 💥 Sign on by emailing Kasia Lemanska and amplify using the toolkit.
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PAN’s Mpox Insights & Actions: Making Sense of Mpox Trackers Nov. 5 update covers the latest case counts, response efforts, funding gaps, and calls for increased transparency among other priority recommendations. 💥 Quick post.
G20 round up:
Ahead of COP29:
The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) launched ZOOSURSY, a wildlife disease surveillance project using a One Health approach in Africa.
Africa CDC, CHAI, and PATH analyzed African vaccine manufacturers’ current capacities, progress, and plans for the future to highlight priority actions.
The U.S. Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy published its 2024-2028 strategy.
What we’re reading:
Africa CDC and partners opened a call for applications to the Bingwa PLUS Initiative, which supports young health champions. Apply by Nov. 17.
WomenStrong International is looking for grantees taking gender-responsive approaches to climate/environmental justice issues. Submit applications by Nov. 30.
Last Mile Health is hiring for different positions across Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Sierra Leone, and the U.S.
Have something to share with the Network? We accept communications, policy, and advocacy opportunities on a rolling basis.
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TODAY! Join Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases’ hybrid event, Global Equity in Access to Pandemic Response Tools, on Nov. 7.
Register for EANNASO, PREZODE, and partners’ Community Engagement in Pandemic Prevention and One Health webinar on Nov. 8.
Join Brown University Pandemic Center’s Nov. 8 webinar, From Outbreak to Containment: Marburg Virus.
Every Breath Counts is hosting a World Pneumonia Day webinar, Climate Change and Respiratory Health, on Nov. 12.
Sign up for the Global Health Council’s hybrid 2024 Global Health Landscape Symposium taking place Nov. 18-21.
Register for the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence Speaker Series’ hybrid event, The Role of Research in Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence, on Nov. 28.
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