A group set up by Nelson Mandela known as the Elders met in Kenya to model a health emergency – and found much still needs to be done, as the subsequent Ebola outbreak has shown ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Abstract image of end to corona virus emergency Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. As a health journalist, I've written the phrase “the COVID-19 pandemic” more times ...

Since the earliest days of the coronavirus pandemic, many social media users have suggested that the virus is a deliberately planned outbreak or hoax. Those claims have taken on a new form in a recent ...

Finalisation of pact governing global response to disease outbreaks delayed as talks on how to share benefits stall A key deadline to finalise a global pandemic treaty has been missed by negotiators, ...

At the height of the COVID pandemic in March of 2021, 25 heads of government and international agencies issued an extraordinary joint call for a “new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and ...

The Global Virus Network (GVN) is highly concerned that the world is unprepared for the next pandemic and has not incorporated the lessons learned from COVID-19. The GVN, comprised of 80+ Virology ...

Without concrete financial commitments and well-designed resource allocation systems, the WHO Pandemic Agreement’s promise of equitable access and global pandemic resilience will remain out of reach.