Thematic paper on the status of country preparedness capacities

The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) provides the world with an independent, authoritative, comprehensive and inclusive overview of the state of its preparedness for health emergencies, and urges political action to prepare for and mitigate the effects of emergencies. For its first annual report, the GPMB analysed evidence from various sources, including reviewing progress made against global recommendations that emerged from reviews of the West Africa Ebola virus disease outbreak in 2014, and commissioned special reports on specific themes.

Contributing to the GPMB’s work, WHO researched and analyzed high-level recommendations and data that emerged after recent public health events to provide an overview of country preparedness and to assess global progress in developing national capacities for health emergency management.