Global Pandemic Agreement: Canada's leadership role

By Paul Logothetis

Media Relations Advisor, uOttawa

Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly
WHO / Christopher Black
Member States of the World Health Organization adopted by consensus the world's first Pandemic Agreement.

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Roojin Habibi (English & French)

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law - Common Law Section

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Professor Habibi's research interests include International Human Rights Law, Normative Interpretation and Change, Global Health Law and Public Health Law.

" Canada has chosen a government which values global institutions while many others have recently chosen more populist governments. The Carney government has an opportunity to align pandemic preparedness with key foreign policy goals: diversifying trade, securing the economy, enhancing diplomatic relations, and asserting Canada’s role as a principled, constructive global actor. Canada’s contributions in this regard could serve as a model for other nations,"she writes in The BMJ