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Response to Request for Information on the Development of a 2025 National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan

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In response

The International Health Regulations (Fourth Edition): Advancing Security, Solidarity, and Equity for a Safer and Fairer World

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Georgetown Journal of International Law (GJIL)
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Article

On June 1, 2024, the World Health Assembly adopted a suite of amendments to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR). The amendments are the most significant reform of the Regulations since their adoption following the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak two decades ago. Reflecting the global health injustices seen during successive public health emergencies, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Regulations now expressly include equity and solidarity as principles for the interpretation and implementation of the treaty.

Authors
Lawrence O. Gostin

Viral Families With Pandemic Potential

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Open Forum Infectious Diseases
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Article

A major challenge of pandemic preparedness is how to anticipate and prepare for future pandemic threats among the wide range of viral threats that can infect humans. Fortunately, only a subset of the 25 viral families that can infect humans have both the capability of widespread respiratory transmission in humans or animals, a prerequisite for pandemic-causing capability, as well a lack of medical countermeasures (MCMs) to prevent and treat the key viral species within them.

Assessing the Revision of the States Parties Self-Assessment Annual Reporting Tool: Developing a Solution for an Historical Analysis of Compliance

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Health Security
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Article

The International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) Monitoring and Evaluation Framework is designed to assist States Parties in assessing progress toward compliance and sustainable capacities under the IHR. The States Parties Self-Assessment Annual Report (SPAR) is the only mandatory tool in the 4-component framework.

Authors
Chengyi Zhao
Brian K. Samuelson
Claire J. Standley

The Positive Influence of Individual-Level Disaster Preparedness on the Odds of Individual-Level Pandemic Preparedness—Insights from FEMA’s 2021–2023 National Household Survey

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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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Article

Objective: To explore the possible association and trends between individual-level disaster preparedness status (for natural, technological, and human-caused hazards) and the level of pandemic preparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic among adults in the U.S. from 2021 through 2023.

Authors
Dionne Mitcham

Environmental Health: Towards Synthesis in Global Law and Governance

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
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Article

International law and global governance regimes for environmental health challenges have been slow to reflect the intertwined relationship between the environment and human health. Historical legacies have caused artificial fragmentation between the two that has resulted in distinct fields of international law and institutions for the environment and health. However, new global paradigms for thinking about environmental health have emerged to foster synthesis under global health law, including One Health and Planetary Health approaches, as well as through international human rights law like the recognition of the right to a clean, safe, and healthy environment.

Authors
Stefania Negri
Marlies Hesselman
Fact Sheet: Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential (PEPP)

Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC) and Pathogens with Enhanced Pandemic Potential (PEPP)

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Fact Sheet

Immunomodulator Stockpiling as a Means of Broad Defense From Biological Threats

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Critical Care Explorations
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Article

The purpose of this article is to examine the potential role of immunomodulators as a means of protecting against a wide range of future biological threats—whether they are deliberately caused by bioweapons or naturally occurring epidemics or pandemics—and to provide policy recommendations for implementing this approach.

The Proposed Pandemic Agreement: A Pivotal Moment for Global Health Law

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
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Article

This article discusses the prospects and pitfalls of a legally binding pandemic agreement under the auspices of the World Health Organization, currently under negotiation in Geneva. Such an agreement could foster a rules-based pandemic prevention, preparedness and response as a reaction to the failures by states during the COVID-19 pandemic, including a lack of effective coordination for sharing all kinds of data and the global inequity in the distribution of medical goods fueled by vaccine nationalism.

Authors
Pedro A. Villarreal
Aeyal Gross

Toward a safer and more secure US bioeconomy

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Article

To enhance the safety and security of the US bioeconomy, a new public–private partnership should be established to facilitate information sharing and threat analysis among industry, government and academia, and to develop and deploy safeguards.

Authors
Matthew Watson
Kunal Rambhia
Meghan J. Seltzer
Sarah R. Carter
Rebecca L. Moritz
James Diggans
John Dileo