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. 2016 May 19;13(5):e1002042.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002042. eCollection 2016 May.

Toward a Common Secure Future: Four Global Commissions in the Wake of Ebola

Lawrence O Gostin  1 , Oyewale Tomori  2 , Suwit Wibulpolprasert  3 , Ashish K Jha  4 , Julio Frenk  5 , Suerie Moon  6 , Joy Phumaphi  7 , Peter Piot  8 , Barbara Stocking  9 , Victor J Dzau  10 , Gabriel M Leung  11
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Toward a Common Secure Future: Four Global Commissions in the Wake of Ebola

Lawrence O Gostin et al. PLoS Med. .

Abstract

Lawrence Gostin and colleagues offer a set of priorities for global health preparedness and response for future infectious disease threats.

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Conflict of interest statement

LOG is Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on Public Health and Human Rights. PP was Chair of the WHO Ebola Science Committee in 2014-2015, and is involved for less than 5% of his time in a trial of the JnJ Ebola vaccine in Sierra Leone, funded by the EC's Innovative Medicine's Initiative. The authors have declared that no other competing interests exist.

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Fig 1. IHR Core Capacities.
Fig 2
Fig 2. Accountability frameworks proposed by the four commissions during inter-emergencies period.
(A) Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future, (B) Harvard-London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola, (C) United Nations High-Level Panel on the Global Response to Health Crises, (D) World Health Organization Ebola Interim Assessment Panel. * denotes individual/body with responsibility for declaring a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). CEPR = Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, DG = Director-General, ED = Executive Director, PPDC = Pandemic Product Development Committee, SG = Secretary-General, UN = United Nations, WHA = World Health Assembly, WHO = World Health Organization.
Fig 3
Fig 3. Changes to the accountability frameworks during a PHEIC that has turned into a humanitarian crisis.
(A) Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future, (B) Harvard-London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola, (C) United Nations High-Level Panel on the Global Response to Health Crises, (D) World Health Organization Ebola Interim Assessment Panel. CEPR = Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, DG = Director-General, ED = Executive Director, ERC = Emergency Response Coordinator, OCHA = Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, SG = Secretary-General, UN = United Nations, WHO = World Health Organization.
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