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The WHO Pandemic Agreement: A Guide

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The WHO Pandemic Agreement: A Guide
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David Bell
Thi Thuy Van Dinh
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The World Health Organization (WHO) and its 194 Member States have been engaged for over two years in the development of two “instruments” or agreements with the intent of radically changing the way pandemics and other health emergencies are managed.

David Bell, senior scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. He is a former medical officer and scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO), programme head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, Switzerland, and director of Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in Bellevue, Wash.
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