Power Grab: The WHO Seeks To Mandate Data Sharing in a Pandemic. Is It Legal? | TrialSite News | Mar 2, 2023 (Video)
Summary:
The World Health Organization (WHO) is exploring how to incentivize sharing of scientific information during a pandemic, ranging from genetic sequence data to broader scientific know-how.
Negotiations are underway for two parallel tools that could be used to mandate this type of data sharing: amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) and the development of a new pandemic treaty through the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB).
TrialSite has been following how the IHR amendments have revealed trust issues within the WHO, while the pandemic treaty draft starts to take shape.
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