Broader, Smarter, Fairer

📖 The Scoop

During the past few years, the global community has failed to promote better health for all. While the need to step up cooperation was widely acknowledged long before the Covid-19 pandemic, short-term solutions have generally prevailed over longerterm strategies to address global health governance’s failures. This CEPS In-Depth Analysis report takes stock of the reforms proposed for future global health governance since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and offers recommendations for both ongoing and possible new initiatives. After presenting a diagnosis of the policy problems that emerged before and during the pandemic, and identifying their underlying causes, we address current initiatives for enhanced political leadership, institutional reform, available financial support, and multistakeholder platforms for more effective delivery. The report concludes by evaluating the effectiveness of proposed reforms, with a focus on the ongoing negotiations on the Pandemic Accord and the newly launched ‘Pandemic Fund’. Observing that the emerging landscape for global health security governance provides for patchy solutions, the report supports the adoption of a more ambitious agenda, with ten areas for improvement identified.

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