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G20 health ministers take action to strengthen global health architecture
The health ministers of the G20 along with invited countries and representatives from various international organizations discussed the progress made and the path forward to strengthen the global health architecture.
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The Group of 20 Health Ministers’ Meeting takes place in Bali on Oct. 28.
"Despite the devastation COVID-19 has brought to our world, we can survive and prosper, if we work together,” said Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin at the second Group of 20 Health Ministers’ Meeting in Jimbaran, Bali, on Oct. 27-28.
The health ministers of the G20 along with invited countries and representatives from various international organizations discussed the progress made and the path forward to strengthen the global health architecture, in particular improving global pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPR).
The COVID-19 pandemic has given the global health community invaluable experience in anticipating a future pandemic. Based on this shared experience, Indonesia led the G20 countries to establish a fund to enhance the capacities of developing countries to prevent, prepare for and respond to future global health threats. A PPR financial intermediary fund (FIF) called the Pandemic Fund was established in September.
“Now 19 countries and three philanthropists have pledged in total more than US$1.4 billion for the fund,” minister Sadikin explained.
The ministers agreed to take further action to advance the work on strengthening global health systems and successfully agreed on six key actions to be submitted to the G20 leaders, which one of is the establishment of the mentioned Pandemic Fund.
The G20 members will continue to lead the shaping of successor entities and functions to ensure the readiness of mechanisms to respond to the future pandemic. Under the leadership of Indonesia, the G20 member states have made progress and paved the way for continued attention to genomic surveillance as a crucial part of the pandemic PPR.
G20 Health Ministers encouraged further global collaboration to build on the successes of existing travel certificate systems while moving toward their interoperability and also agreed to make gap analysis and mapping of existing and emerging research and manufacturing networks.
The meeting also discussed the importance of other health issues such as tuberculosis, One Health and antimicrobial resistance.
The series of G20 high-level meetings started on Dec. 1, 2021, when Indonesia assumed the G20 presidency, and will culminate in the Bali G20 Leaders’ Summit. The 17th G20 Leaders’ Summit will discuss measures to ensure that the world recovers together and recovers stronger.
Indonesia holds the G20 presidency until Nov. 30 of this year, after which it will pass the presidency baton to India on Dec. 1.
