Legal Preparedness Action Package
Promoting Legal Preparedness as a Critical Capacity for Strengthening Global Health Security
The mission of the GHSA Legal Preparedness Action Package is to promote legal preparedness as a critical capacity for an effective public health emergency response and for strengthening global health security.
How? By bringing countries and key experts together to build a solid foundation and common understanding of the competencies necessary for strengthening public health legal preparedness by developing technical tools to guide and support countries in strengthening their legal preparedness capacity and advocating for greater awareness globally about the role that legal preparedness plays in preparing for health emergencies.
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Legal Preparedness Definition
In the context of public health emergencies, legal preparedness is the capability to map, develop, refine, and utilize legal instruments across sectors that enable the implementation of capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. This involves identification of legal approaches that can promote (or hinder) an effective response to a public health event and the strategic development and refinement of legal instruments to facilitate the implementation of capacities needed for strong health systems. Legal preparedness for public health emergencies aims to facilitate efficient and effective coordination among relevant multi-sectoral stakeholders and support the overall continuous process of preparing for and responding to public health emergencies.
Contributing Members
Co-Chairs: Argentina, Georgetown Law’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and the United States(OGA and CDC)
Countries/ Governments:
Multilateral Organizations
Africa CDC
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
International Development Law Organization (IDLO)
West African Health Organizaton (WAHO)
World Bank
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH, formerly OIE)
Civil Society (including Academia)
Brown University
Columbia University
Georgetown University Law Center, O’Neill Institute for National Global Health Law (Co-Lead)
Global Health Law Consortium (GHLC)
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Global Health Centre
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
International Senior Lawyers Project (ISLP)
National Singapore University
Université de Montréal
Resolve to Save Lives
Safe Mother and Childhood Research Initiative (SAMOCRI)
Yonsei University
“The world is not ready for the next pandemic…We can be. Pandemic legal preparedness should not be an option or a nice to have. It is a critical component of identifying and responding to a pandemic and making sure that the next pandemic looks very different than the current one.”
Anthony Brown
Resolve to Save Lives at the GHSA LP AP Public Launch
Contact Us
If you would like additional information regarding the events and/or joining the Legal Preparedness Action Package (LP AP), please reach out to the LP AP Secretariat at:
Email: ghsalpap@georgetown.edu
