TOWARDS GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE OR TOWARDS GLOBAL CONTROL OF STATES AND PEOPLE?
TOWARDS GLOBAL HEALTH GOVERNANCE OR TOWARDS GLOBAL CONTROL OF STATES AND PEOPLE?

Author(s): Mirjana Dokmanović
Subject(s): Politics, Social Sciences, Sociology, Security and defense, Globalization
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: Pandemic Treaty; public-private partnership; International Health Regulation; public health; COVID-19
Summary/Abstract: This chapter presents key challenges in the ongoing reform of the global health regime based on the initiative to adopt a binding Pandemic Treaty and a reviewed International Health Regulation. The analysis of the proposed regulation from the human rights perspective leads to a conclusion that it entails a great potential to produce negative effects on both human rights and on the right of states to decide sovereignly on health-related issues. The proposed regulation gives the World Health Organization (WHO) the ultimate authority to decide on all issues related to public health, as well as the monopoly on informing about measures to prevent and combat pandemics and other public health emergencies. The influence of the corporate sector on the WHO will be strengthen and formalized by its inclusion in a new political body, the Global Health Threats Council. The author warns that the proposed centralized global health governance opens the door to many abuses and allows the concentration of the decision-making power concerning all issues related to the health of all people in the hands of a few.

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