483 - The Movement for a Global Pandemic Treaty
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Greater global cooperation could have saved many lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Preparedness and response expert Lucia Mullen of the Center for Health Security talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the growing call to support such cooperation through a pandemic treaty . They also talk about mis- and disinformation that have emerged already, such as myths that a treaty could override countries' rights or give the World Health Organization sweeping power.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:17.1 | and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore. |
| 0:19.7 | Our goal is to bring evidence and experience to illuminate critical public health issues. |
| 0:25.4 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jhh.edu. |
| 0:31.6 | That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:37.8 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. |
| 0:41.6 | Today we ask, what is a pandemic treaty? |
| 0:45.2 | Dr. Josh Starstein speaks to Lucia Mullen, a senior analyst at the Johns Hopkins Center for |
| 0:50.4 | Health Security. |
| 0:51.4 | They discussed the early planning for a new global agreement on pandemics and how it might |
| 0:56.4 | address some of the gaps in the international response exposed by COVID. |
| 1:00.3 | They also discussed the stop the treaty movement and other obstacles ahead. |
| 1:04.6 | Let's listen. |
| 1:06.7 | Lucia Mullen, thank you so much for joining me on public health on call. |
| 1:10.7 | Our topic is a possible |
| 1:12.6 | pandemic treaty. And you're going to explain to me and our listeners what that is. |
| 1:18.9 | Certainly. Thanks. It's a pleasure to be here. So the pandemic treaty came up in 2021 as a call |
| 1:26.9 | to recognize the fact that the current international treaties or |
| 1:32.2 | conventions we have in place haven't been enough to stop large-scale pandemics and amount |
| 1:38.0 | effective preparedness and response. This is largely in reference to the international health |
| 1:42.9 | regulations, which is the main treaty that WHO uses in order to ensure countries are providing them with information as well as making sure that they're staying prepared in the light of emerging disease outbreaks. |
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