Frameworks for Global Health Collaboration in Pandemic Disease

Novel disease emergence with associated outbreaks and pandemics have become increasingly common in the last several decades. For centuries, people have utilized various forms of collaboration to control outbreaks. Modern global health frameworks now play a central role in guiding a targeted and coordinated international disease response; recent pandemics have shown that such systems have both strengths and vulnerabilities. This report assesses the existing global health infrastructure for pandemic response and discusses how the World Health Organization (WHO) and global health infrastructure has responded to recent public health threats.