Australia’s plan to manage the next pandemic

The Department of Health release the Australian Health Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza (AHMPPI).  (With minor updates in 2019).  With report contributions from Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and Melbourne Uni School of Population Health. [1, 2]

The Minister for Health, The Hon Peter Dutton MP’s opening remarks warn “it is inevitable that the world will face another influenza pandemic.”

Six months later Dutton announced a landmark review of the ways in which the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) regulates medicines, the very review that allows for  the 2018 “Provisional Registration” to be added to the TGA catalogue of registration avenues.

The 2020 pandemic response for COVID-19 follows the pandemic Legal Framework set out in this document, and fast tracked vaccine “approvals” were possible because of Peter Dutton.