Global Preparedness Monitoring Board
Pandemic/Preparation
| Global Preparedness Monitoring Board () Website | |
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| Abbreviation | GPMB |
| Formation | May 2018 |
| Headquarters | Geneva |
| Leader | Global Preparedness Monitoring Board/Chair |
| Membership | Palitha Abeykoon, Ibrahim Abubakar, Bente Angell-Hansen, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Victor Dzau, Chris Elias, Jeremy Farrar, Anthony Fauci, Zijian Feng, Henrietta Fore, George Gao, Diane Gashumba, Jayati Ghosh, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Naoko Ishii, Sigrid Kaag, Ilona Kickbusch, Mark Lowcock, Jeanette Vega Morales, Joy Phumaphi, Maha El Rabbat, Veronika Skvortsova, Matthew Stone, Yashuhiru Suzuki, Elhadj As Sy |
| WHO/World bank set-up "independent monitoring and advocacy body" to promote "Pandemic Preparation" | |
The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board describes itself as "an independent monitoring and advocacy body".[1]
Origins
In May 2018 the WHO and World Bank Group set up the GPMB.[2]
Own words
In its September 2019 report, the GPMB stated that the "goals of the Board are to:
- assess the world’s ability to protect itself from health emergencies;
- identify critical gaps to preparedness across multiple perspectives;
- advocate for preparedness activities with national and international leaders and decision-makers."[3]
Criticism
The GPMB states "The world is not prepared for a fast-moving, virulent respiratory pathogen pandemic", where "50 - 80 million people could perish".[4] By focusing on "robust preparedness", pressuring national leaders to take "determined measures" against a declared pandemic situation, they overshot the target and recommended too severe measures (a ruinous global lockdown) that in the case of a false alarm (swine flu, Covid-19) led to exactly the major economic disaster they claimed they wanted to prevent.
Leadership
The co-chairs as of early 2020 were Gro Harlem Brundtland and Elhadj As Sy. The board claims to be independent, but the Gates Foundation is represented on the board by Chris Elias, and several of the members have ties to the pharmaceutical industry. Several of the board members were present at the Event 201 pandemic exercise. Boards as of May 2020 and December 2025.[5]
Funding
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, Resolve to Save Lives and the German Government.
References
- ↑ https://apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/annual_report/GPMB_annualreport_2019.pdf
- ↑ https://borgenproject.org/global-preparedness-monitoring-board/
- ↑ https://apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/annual_report/GPMB_annualreport_2019.pdf
- ↑ https://apps.who.int/gpmb/assets/annual_report/GPMB_Annual_Report_English.pdf
- ↑ https://www.gpmb.org/about-us#tab=tab_1