How to make sure the world is never so devastated by another pandemic?
Health officials from around the globe have been vigorously discussing that question over the past week at the annual meeting of the World Health Organization’s Executive Board. The members, whose nine-day-long, mostly virtual gathering concludes on Tuesday, have heard recommendations from four separate panels.
Some of these panels are high-powered, such as an independent advisory committee set up by the WHO to look at pandemic preparedness and led by former Liberian president — and Nobel Peace Prize winner — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.
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