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Last year, the G7 under Germany’s presidency introduced the Pact for Pandemic Readiness, which aligns new and existing initiatives to create synergies, maximise outputs and reduce fragmentation – and improve the global landscape for pandemic readiness B y introducing the G7 Pact for Pandemic Readiness in 2022, the G7 decided to strengthen key areas essential for a predictable and rapid response to pandemics, in particular collaborative surveillance and the health emergency workforce. The G7 Pact for Pandemic Readiness focuses on sustainable action that builds on past and current G7 initiatives while also providing a coordinated contribution of the G7 to strengthen global pandemic readiness. The pact became an integral part of the G7 health ministers’ communiqué adopted in Berlin in May 2022. It was subsequently endorsed by their leaders in the communiqué issued at their summit in Elmau in June 2022. A pact for global pandemic readiness
To ensure continuity, current G7 processes have followed up on the G7 Pact for Pandemic Readiness. At their meeting under Japan’s 2023 presidency in May, G7 health
By Karl Lauterbach, health minister, Federal Republic of Germany
ministers reiterated their support for increasing networking within and between countries and regions in order to strengthen the health workforce and support early detection, swift containment and timely research sharing in response to future infectious diseases and other health threats. WHY WAS IT CREATED? In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, a plethora of new initiatives emerged. Following a network approach, the G7 Pact for Pandemic Readiness aims to better align new and existing initiatives to create synergies, maximise outputs, and reduce fragmentation, duplication and redundancy. To ensure continuous action and implementation of the pact, G7 partners and relevant stakeholders held two technical meetings in Berlin in October 2022. Based on these discussions, the G7 elaborated on and adopted the Roadmap for Practical Cooperation to advance the G7 Pact for Pandemic Readiness in December 2022. Along with 20 specific contributing activities, the roadmap includes four key areas: sustainable and coordinated funding for collaborative surveillance and a public health emergency workforce to prepare the world for future pandemics; a strong health emergency workforce network connected to centres of expertise; up-to-date training programmes for collaborative surveillance and predictable rapid response; and engagement in communities of practice for collaborative surveillance.
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