Declaring a Public Health Emergency of International Concern: Between International Law and Politics

Front Cover\nDeclaring A Public Health Emergency of International Concern: Between International Law and Politics\nCopyright information\nTable of contents\nTable of Instruments\nList of figures\nNotes on the Authors\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\n	A Public Health Emergency of International Concern\n	The PHEIC: between international law and politics?\n	Why this matters\n	Methodology\n	Structure of the book\nOne From Westphalian to Post-Westphalian? The Origins of the PHEIC Declaration and the 2005 International Health Regulations\n	International Sanitary Conferences\n	The 1969 International Health Regulations – need for reform\n	Reforming the regulations\n	SARS, China and the use of discretionary powers at the WHO\n	Reforming the IHR – process, politics and an innovative treaty\nTwo A Public Health Emergency of International Concern: Between Legal Obligations and Political Reality\n	Role of states that are party to the IHR\n	Role of the WHO Director-General\n	Role of the Emergency Committee\n	Public Health Emergency of International Concern\n		Extraordinary event\n		Risk of the international spread of disease\n		Coordinated international response\n	The declaration of a PHEIC and the IHR process\n	Transparency, accountability and good governance of the PHEIC process\n	Blurring the lines between the EC and the DG\n	Transparency and good governance\nThree Case Studies on the PHEIC Declaration\n	2009-H1N1\n		PHEIC decision making\n		Temporary recommendations\n		Additional reflections: 2009-H1N1, a PHEIC and a pandemic\n	Polio\n		PHEIC decision making\n		Temporary recommendations\n		Additional considerations\n	The West African Ebola outbreak\n		PHEIC decision making\n		Temporary recommendations\n		Additional considerations\n	Zika\n		PHEIC decision making\n		Temporary recommendations\n		Additional reflections\n	Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo90\n		PHEIC decision making\n			October 2018\n			April 2019\n			June 2019\n			July 2019\n		Temporary recommendations\n		Additional reflections\n	COVID-19\n		PHEIC decision making\n		Temporary recommendations\n		Additional reflections\nFour Events That Were Not Declared a PHEIC\n	MERS-CoV\n	Yellow fever\n	Events for which no IHR EC was convened\n		Cholera in Zimbabwe\n		Cholera in Haiti\n	Beyond naturally occurring events\nConclusion\n	Bibliography\nIndex\nBack Cover\nIndex