REFORMING THE GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH REGIME: TOWARDS GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

Novičić Žaklina (Institut za međunarodnu politiku i privredu, Beograd), zaklina@diplomacy.bg.ac.rs

The paper addresses the ongoing international health regime reform, which should end in 2024 with the adoption of a new pandemic treaty or a revision of existing international health regulations. This process has not gone too far in its current stage of development. However, there is certainly an agenda to centralise global health governance, which includes various public and private interests and actors. Using a structural-institutional approach, the author assesses the degree of development of transnational centralisation of the international health regime, focuses attention on its important agency, actors, and interests, and indicates omissions in terms of governmental accountability and human rights manifested in this process.

Keywords: international health regime, global governance, World Health Organization, EU, USA, pandemic, accountability