This concept note describes a WHO-convened consultative process to design a multi-disease, multitool, end-to-end platform for coordinating the rapid development and equitable access to medical countermeasures for pandemics and major epidemics.
A key goal of this process is to help achieve convergence of the many parallel discussions underway on enhancing access to countermeasures, with the aim of ensuring that all these efforts are working to common purpose.
The consultation process will engage a broad range of global, regional, and national stakeholders and will build on experiences and learnings from the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A), Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework (PIP) and other relevant inter-agency/international initiatives focused on epidemic-prone diseases such as Ebola (e.g. the International Coordinating Group, ICG).