Acute health emergencies rapidly responded to, leveraging relevant national and international capacities

The Secretariat will support countries to: convene and make recommendations on emergency grading based on risk assessments as established in the Emergency Response framework; institutionalize response plans, mechanisms and processes, and implement emergency response activities through effective planning, budgeting, risk management and identification of financing gaps, ensuring continuous resource mobilization efforts and supporting resource allocation decisions through the Event Management Suite 2 (EMS2) structure; redesign and adapt existing operations and supply chain and logistics platforms to manage large emergency events; coordinate acute events, including the setup and coordination of incident management systems, and structures to ensure timely and efficient responses, and partner coordination through the Global Outbreak and Response Network (GOARN); and strengthen linkages to regional and national emergency operation centres and national networks in order to ensure that such centres function as major strategic information hubs. In producing technical products on norms/standard, data and research, the Secretariat will: convene Emergency Committees under the International Health Regulations (2005), in the case of an extraordinary public health event, which will advise the Director-General on whether to declare a public health emergency of international concern; develop rapid technical evidence-based guidance, standards and strategic response plans, collaborating with regional, national counterparts and all relevant stakeholders and partners to address evolving challenges; provide situational and epidemiological reports; monitor and evaluate response measures; strengthen the global emergency operations platform, build stronger national and regional networks with a focus on improving standardization and interoperability, share and analyse critical real-time information for strategic decision-making and coordinating, mobilizing and rapidly deploying surge personnel through the Global Outbreak and Response Network (GOARN), emergency medical teams and other operational partnerships; and ensure coherence between national logistics and distribution systems and global and regional platforms that provide access to critical countermeasures; ensure pre-negotiated and coordinated distribution contracts and the availability of appropriate stocks and supplier agreements; enable free movement of essential countermeasures, raw materials across borders.