{"id":11248,"date":"2024-06-25T15:27:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T19:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dighr\/?p=11248"},"modified":"2024-09-18T20:45:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T00:45:34","slug":"pandemic-prevention-and-global-policy-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dighr\/pandemic-prevention-and-global-policy-in-geneva\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic Prevention and Global Policy in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In late May, Dahdaleh faculty fellow Tarra Penney and Dahdaleh research fellow Chloe Clifford Astbury travelled to Geneva to attend the Geneva Health Forum<\/a> and Geneva Health Week<\/a>, which ran in parallel with the 77th World Health Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Geneva Health Forum brings together policymakers, academics, civil society and private sector representatives from all over the world to discuss and address our biggest global health challenges. Meanwhile, Geneva Health Week is hosted by the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies<\/a> and provides a platform to discuss critical global health issues to raise awareness among a range of audiences, particularly member states attending World Health Assembly meetings. Both events aim to shape global policy discourse and build on the momentum garnered by the World Health Assembly. While the city was full of enthusiasm, there was also evidence of pushback, including advertising proclaiming: \u201cNO to the pandemic treaty\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of Geneva Health Week, Chloe shared some key findings and insights from a multi-country research project, Evaluating the Governance of Emergent Pandemic Zoonoses<\/a>, focused on generating evidence to inform prevention of the next pandemic. The panel discussion \u201cOne Health and Pandemic Prevention in Practice: Is the Global South Leading Innovation?<\/em>\u201d (event recording and information available here<\/a>) was moderated by Nina Jamal of the animal welfare organisation Four Paws International<\/a>. Fellow panellists included Arlette Dinde of the Swiss Centre for Scientific Research in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and CGIAR, and Benjamin Roche of PREZODE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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