Global Monitoring of Upstream Determinants of Health Emergencies

Overview

At the request of the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, this report aims to strengthen efforts to manage the risk of infectious disease health emergencies by incorporating upstream determinants of health and health equity more centrally to pandemic risk management. More specifically, this report presents initial thinking in identifying relevant variables that may play a significant role in a risk monitoring framework for infectious health emergencies across the spectrum of prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery (PPRR), with an explicit focus on broader or more upstream determinants across five pillars: social, technological, economic, environmental and political.