Extracts below and a comment from me. Full text: https://hq_who_departmentofcommunications.cmail19.com/t/d-e-gwdddk-hlddy...
13 October 2025 -- Berlin/Geneva -- A new global report launched today outlines preparedness priorities to protect people worldwide from future pandemics and other health crises; it calls for scaled up investment in primary health care, real-time risk assessment, and international cooperation to ensure local and global communities are ready to prevent and respond to the next pandemic...
The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) released its 2025 report, ‘The New Face of Pandemic Preparedness,’ during the World Health Summit held in Berlin. It calls for a transformative shift in pandemic preparedness...
The GPMB, established in 2018 following the West Africa Ebola epidemic, monitors the state of the world’s preparedness for pandemics and other health crises. It is an initiative supported by the World Health Organization and the World Bank...
the explosion of misinformation, growing mistrust and divisive geopolitical forces weaken preparedness...
A shift in “care” is needed to strengthen frontline systems through investments in primary health care, closer engagement with communities, and a protected health workforce.
COMMENT (NPW): misinformation, mistrust, division... never before has there been such a need for reliable healthcare information, restoration of trust, and compassion.
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org