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The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (abbreviated GPMB) is a joint arm of the WHO [1] and the World Bank. [2] It was created by both organizations in response to the Western African Ebola virus epidemic. [3]
From 2018 to 2022, Kaag served on the joint World Bank–WHO Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), co-chaired by Elhadj As Sy and Gro Harlem Brundtland. [17] [18] In 2019, she joined the World Economic Forum High-Level Group on Humanitarian Investing, co-chaired by Børge Brende, Kristalina Georgieva and Peter Maurer. [19]
He was an Advisory Board member of the Public Health Board of Open Society Foundation [15] and of the MRC Applied Global Health Board. [16] He is also on the Editorial Board of BMC Medicine. [17] He is a non-executive member of the North Central London Integrated Care Board [18] and a member of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board. [19]
On 18 September, the Director-General presented the second report of the WHO and World Bank-backed Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, A World in Disorder, which recommends developing "muscle memory", i.e., repetition, as a "key to pandemic response". [132]
From 2018 to 2022, he served on the joint World Bank/WHO Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB), co-chaired by Elhadj As Sy and Gro Harlem Brundtland. [45] [46] In 2019, he co-chaired a WHO committee evaluating Ebola therapeutics. [47] [48] Farrar has also served on UK governments committees.
The WHO Director-General presented the second report of the WHO and World Bank-backed Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, A World in Disorder, which recommends developing “muscle memory”, i.e., repetition, as a “key to pandemic response”. [15]
She is a Mission Board Member of EQT Future Fund; [15] Director of Imperative Care; [16] Board Trustee of Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); and a Board Member of Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, [17] co-convened by the World Bank Group and WHO.
Following warnings and increased preparedness in the 2000s, the 2009 swine flu pandemic led to rapid anti-pandemic reactions amongst the Western countries. The H1N1/09 virus strain with mild symptoms and low lethality eventually led to a backlash over public sector over-reactiveness, spending, and the high cost of the 2009 flu vaccine.