A Medical Countermeasures Platform for Future Pandemics: Essential Elements for Equity

The WHO and other stakeholders, including CSOs, are developing a medical countermeasures platform (MCP) for future pandemics. Many are concerned that this will repeat key mistakes in the global COVID-19 response. The global COVID-19 response was coordinated through the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACTA), which demonstrated some success, but also missteps and failures. Given the likelihood of a pandemic as serious as COVID-19 occurring in the 25 years, we unpack several reforms that are needed to increase equity in the next pandemic.