Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) was created in response to recommendations by the UN Secretary General’s Global Health Crises Task Force mid-2017.

The predecessor Global Health Crises Task Force was created in 2016 in response to the West Africa Ebola outbreak, they stated “Recent health emergencies, including the 2014-2016 West African Ebola outbreak, shed light on the major gaps in sustained political will, action, and sustainable financing for preparedness” and they recommended “the need for robust ongoing monitoring of global health emergency preparedness.”

The GPMB was formally launched in 24 May 2018, with their first meeting was held Sept 2018, the board is co-convened by the WHO and the World Bank Group and is said to be “an independent monitoring and accountability body to ensure preparedness for global health crises”, with funding that has come from the Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, & Germany. [1]

The GPMB commissions,  prepares and “publishes an annual report on global preparedness for health emergencies that provides an authoritative assessment that is easily translatable to action for policymakers, researchers, health professionals and donors”.  The September 2019 report “A World At Risk”.

In Sept 2019 the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security release a timely report titled “Preparedness for a High-Impact Respiratory Pathogen Pandemic”, and then in September 2019 the GMPB release their complied report “A World At Risk”, a month later in October 2019 Event 201 was held.

The founding co-chair Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, was (may still be) a member of the Trilateral Commission and wrote “Our Common Future“, the book that popularised the term Sustainable Development, and provided the framework for the UN Agenda 21 in 1992.

Many of the Board members have been intimately involved with steering the pandemic narrative:

  • Co-Chair –  Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland – Served as WHO Director-General 1998-2003
  • Co-Chair – Mr Elhadj As Sy – Red Cross
  • Dr Victor Dzau – President Nat. Acad. Medicine
  • Dr Chris Elias – President B&M Gates Foundation
  • Sir Jeremy Farrar – Director Wellcome Trust
  • George F Gao – China’s CDC
  • Dr Anthony S Fauci – Director of NIH
  • H.E. Sigrid Kaag – Netherlands
  • Prof Ilona Kickbusch – German/Switzerland
  • Henrietta Fore – UNICEF
  • Dr Yasuhiro Suzuki – Japan
  • Prof Veronika Skvortsova – Russian Federation
  • Prof K VijayRaghaven – India

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