Soder, Victoria Lauren
(2024)
Enhancing Global Legal Preparedness to Reflect a Post-COVID World.
Master Essay, University of Pittsburgh.
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inability of the global political community to effectively respond to a public health emergency, especially one that crosses national borders. As a result, global health experts, government officials, and international organizations have mobilized to assess what went wrong in the international response to COVID-19. A primary gap that has been identified is the inadequacy and ineffectiveness of global legal frameworks, underscoring the poor legal preparedness of international intergovernmental organizations and nations when faced with public health crises. This essay aims to describe and review the current primary global coordination frameworks for public health emergency preparedness and provide feasible recommendations for enhancing legal preparedness. It defines and explains the concept of legal preparedness, and other concepts important to legal preparedness, including public health law, global health law, and global health security. This essay will explain the International Health Regulations (IHR), Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), and Joint External Evaluation (JEE), highlighting how these legal structures, and the World Health Organization (WHO), frame globallegal preparedness. Following a discussion of these legal instruments in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic (the Pandemic) and key legal barriers that emerged during the Pandemic, I will apply what was learned during this international public health crisis to present three recommendations to enhance global legal preparedness: (1) strengthen the legal and political legitimacy of the WHO;(2) encourage countries to partner with the GHSA, and; (3) expand the WHO’s role in aiding in legal preparedness development in low-income countries.
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Other Thesis, Dissertation, or Long Paper
(Master Essay)
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Unpublished |
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| Contribution | Contributors Name | Email | Pitt Username | ORCID  |
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| Committee Chair | Hershey, Tina | tbh16@pitt.edu | tbh16 | UNSPECIFIED | | Committee Member | Salter, Cynthia | cys6@pitt.edu | cys6 | UNSPECIFIED | | Thesis advisor | Bryce, Cindy | bryce99@pitt.edu | bryce99 | UNSPECIFIED |
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| Date: |
21 May 2024 |
| Date Type: |
Completion |
| Submission Date: |
25 April 2024 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Number of Pages: |
53 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
School of Public Health > Health Policy & Management |
| Degree: |
MPH - Master of Public Health |
| Thesis Type: |
Master Essay |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
global legal preparedness, legal preparedness, global health, COVID-19, public health law, global health law |
| Date Deposited: |
21 May 2024 14:24 |
| Last Modified: |
21 May 2024 14:24 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/46320 |
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