Register View Workshop Agenda Background Over the past decade or more, infectious disease outbreaks including those associated with Ebola, SARS, H1N1, MERS-CoV, H7N9, and Chikungunya, have demonstrated that the international community, including governmental and non-governmental entities, do not have adequate infrastructure in place to mitigate the systemic burdens that result from these large scale public […]

View Workshop Agenda Background Over the past decade or more, infectious disease out- breaks including those associated with Ebola, SARS, H1N1, MERS-CoV, H7N9, and Chikungunya, have demonstrated that the international community, including governmental and non-governmental entities, do not have adequate infrastructure in place to mitigate the systemic burdens that result from these large scale public […]

Register An ad hoc committee will plan a two-day public workshop on the financing of global response to pandemic threats, clarifying where the money for surveillance, detection, and response should come from and how it should be spent. The workshop will examine the role of the World Bank's proposed Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, an organization […]