Commission on Creating a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future:

ACHEST’s expertise in global health continues to be recognized as Prof. Francis Omaswa appointed to serve on a 15 member international, independent, multi-stakeholder expert commission that will conduct a study and prepare a report to recommend an effective global architecture for recognizing and mitigating the threat of epidemic infectious diseases.

The commission will receive input from four Institute of Medicine workshops that will be coordinated on: governance for global health, financing response to pandemic threats, resilient health systems (Francis Omaswa Co-chair), research and development of medical products.

The report of this Commission will be presented to the January 2016 WHO Executive Board and to the World Health Assembly in May 2016.