WS 06 - Global Health Governance Post-COVID-19

In September 2019, a team of leading multilateral organizations in health, development and humanitarian responses joined efforts to analyze, align, accelerate and account for more synergized international progress towards achieving the SDG3 by launching the 'Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-Being' (GAP-SDG3). Now, the COVID-19 pandemic is putting the whole world under extreme conditions and revealed major weaknesses and gaps in the current global health governance. The aim to reach health and well-being for all (SDG3) until 2030 recedes into the far distance. At the same time, the world has seen unprecedented collaboration of multiple global health institutions as part of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A). However, during the pandemic, it has gotten quieter around the GAP. In what way does the COVID-19 pandemic affect the GAP-SDG3 implementation and interfere with progress on achieving the SDG3? How could we use GAP-SDG3 proactively as an instrument to build back better during and after the COVID-19-pandemic? In this session, the panelists will discuss the capacities of and the politics around the GAP-SDG3 as a vehicle to help the global health system to recover and build back better in a collaborative manner.