World leaders recognized for championing the WHO Pandemic Agreement

The World Well being Group has formally acknowledged the pivotal function of numerous heads of state and authorities in securing the adoption of the WHO Pandemic Agreement by the Seventy-eighth World Well being Meeting in Could 2025.

At a particular occasion at WHO Headquarters in Geneva on 10 July 2025, plaques had been offered to the representatives of two international locations whose former and present presidents, His Excellency Sebastián Piñera, former President of Chile, and His Excellency Kais Saied, President of Tunisia, advocated for the Settlement from the outset. Certificates had been additionally awarded to leaders of 25 different international locations for his or her steerage and dedication all through the negotiation course of.

“The adoption by the World Well being Meeting of the Pandemic Settlement was a historic second in world well being,” mentioned Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-Normal. “However we’d not have reached that second with out sustained political advocacy from the best ranges”.

International locations whose present or former presidents or prime ministers had been additionally acknowledged embrace Albania, Costa Rica, Croatia, Fiji, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Republic of Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, and the UK of Nice Britain and Northern Eire.

The Pandemic Settlement represents a worldwide dedication to a more robust international health architecture, one that’s grounded in fairness, cooperation, and shared duty.

Political momentum behind the Settlement was galvanized partly by a commentary revealed in main worldwide shops in 2021, during which 25 heads of state and worldwide organizations known as for a pandemic treaty.

Work has now begun to take ahead key components of the Pandemic Settlement, specifically on pathogen entry and profit sharing. This work is being led by an intergovernmental working group (the “IGWG on the WHO Pandemic Settlement”), which met for the primary time this week.