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... .2 By November 2015, the epidemic had resulted in more than 28,000 cases and 11,000 deaths.3 Beyond the near-term challenge of ending ongoing Ebola transmission, this epidemic has again demonstrated the inadequacy of the international framework for managing global public health communicable disease events. 1  The planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop.
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... Once again, multiple expert panels have been assembled at international levels to assess what went wrong in this l ­atest public health crisis, and to recommend actions related to governance of global health that can be taken at the national, regional, and international levels to prevent another outbreak from emerging and negatively impacting so many countries and populations. THE GLOBAL HEALTH RISK FRAMEWORK INITIATIVE Since the 2014 Ebola outbreak many public- and private-sector leaders have seen a need for improved management of global public health emergencies.
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... "We are here to consider the key elements of good governance for global health, to characterize the needs, gaps, and barriers in our current approaches, to consider alternative models of global health governance, to examine indicators and metrics of an effective, accountable, anticipatory and resilient system," David Relman of Stanford University told workshop participants. This effort, he continued, supports the Global Health Risk Framework Commission's goal of building actionable recommendations that lead to improved global health governance: a high-stakes result on which the health and welfare of the world's population depend.
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... • C  onsider the key elements of "good" governance, such as targets and benchmarks, monitoring, transparency, honesty, civil society engagement, and accountability. • D  ocument key successes and lessons learned from past global infectious disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies and how they may inform preparation and response to future outbreaks and emergencies.


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