Protecting Humanity from Future Health Crises: Report of the High-level Panel on the Global Response to Health Crises - Advance Copy

In this context, the UN Secretary-General established the High-level Panel on the Global Response to Health Crises (the Panel) in April 2015 to propose recommendations that would strengthen national and international systems to prevent and respond effectively to future health crises, taking into account lessons learned from the Ebola response.

The Panel focused its attention on health crises arising from the outbreaks of new, acute or re-emerging communicable diseases that pose a threat of international spread. The Panel saw its task as being forward-looking in proposing critical measures that would better prevent and respond to future health crises. The report should not be considered as a critique of the Ebola response, as other reviews were more technically qualified to address this. Nevertheless, the Panel examined such reviews in-depth and used the global response to the Ebola outbreak as a point of departure for its deliberations.