Overview: Through technical consultations with countries and partners, WHO has led the development of Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats Module 1: Planning for respiratory pathogen pandemics. Version 1.0. The Module, currently available as an advanced draft, builds on previous pandemic lessons and guidance, and has the following new elements:
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This checklist is an operational tool to help national authorities develop or revise national respiratory pathogen (inclusive of influenza and...
This checklist is an operational tool to help national authorities develop or revise national respiratory pathogen (inclusive of influenza and coronaviruses) pandemic preparedness plans. It presents suggested priority actions that countries can take now in order to be better prepared for a pandemic. It is in-line with the Preparedness and resilience for emerging threats (PRET) approach and in conjunction with PRET module 1: planning for respiratory pathogen pandemics. This checklist builds from the 2018 WHO checklist for pandemic influenza risk and impact management: building capacity for pandemic response, the Pandemic influenza risk management (PIRM) guideline and COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan operational checklists, and associated tools, with a focus on the similar capacities that could be leveraged for different respiratory pathogens of pandemic potential to make pandemic planning more efficient and integrated.
To strengthen preparedness, countries are encouraged to leverage what exists and to take two mutually reinforcing approaches: a cross-cutting all-hazards approach and a vertical hazard approach. The scope of the checklist therefore covers all respiratory pathogens of pandemic potential, including specific actions for key respiratory-borne RNA viruses identified as being of heightened pandemic risk, such as influenza, coronaviruses and the threat of novel respiratory pathogen X.