Global Preparedness Monitoring Board

The Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) is an independent monitoring and accountability body to ensure preparedness for global health crises. Co-convened by the Director-General of the World Health Organization and the President of the World Bank, the GPMB is comprised of globally-recognized leaders and experts from a wide range of sectors, including global health, veterinary epidemiology, environment, human rights, economics, law, gender, and development. 

It is tasked with providing an independent and comprehensive appraisal for policy makers and the world about progress towards increased preparedness and response capacity for disease outbreaks and other emergencies with health consequences. In short, the work of the GPMB is to chart a roadmap for a safer world.

Recent publications

The GPMB 2023 Report, ‘A Fragile State of Preparedness’, which is based for the first time on an analysis using the GPMB Monitoring Framework,...

The GPMB calls on heads of state and government participating in this High-Level Meeting to make the bold political commitments that are urgently needed...

Global preparedness is more than the sum of national preparedness; this concept is of central importance to the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board...

In 2020, the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) began a process of developing a Monitoring Framework to serve as “a single, authoritative...

The world is overshadowed by the risk of pandemics. H5N1 is circulating widely in global animal populations, m-pox remains a public health emergency of...