Review Committee regarding amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005)

The IHR Review Committee regarding amendments to International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) is convened pursuant to Articles 50.1.(a)2 and 47 of the IHR, as well as Decision WHA75(9).

This Review Committee will function in accordance with the WHO Regulations for Expert Advisory Panels and Committees, and will provide its report to the WHO Director-General no later than mid-January 2023.

The sole purpose of this Review Committee is to provide technical recommendations to the Director-General on amendments proposed by State Parties to the IHR, as decided by the Health Assembly in Decision WHA75(9).

The Review Committee began its work on 6 October 2022.

In accordance with Decision WHA75(9), the technical recommendations formulated by this Review Committee will inform the work of the Member States Working Group on Amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) (WGIHR). In accordance with the same decision, the first meeting of the WGIHR was convened on 14-15 November 2022 and the WGIHR will present its proposed amendments to the IHR for consideration by the Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly in 2024.

Further to the first meeting of the WGIHR, proposals for amendments to the IHR submitted by the following 16 States Parties, including four States Parties who submitted those proposals also on behalf of other States Parties, were considered by the Review Committee – Armenia; Bangladesh; Brazil; Czech Republic on behalf of the Member States of the European Union; Eswatini on behalf the WHO African Region Member States; India; Indonesia; Japan; Malaysia; Namibia; New Zealand; Republic of Korea; Russian Federation on behalf of the Member States of the Eurasian Economic Union; Switzerland; United States of America; and Uruguay on behalf of MERCOSUR.

For any information about this Review Committee, please contact ihrrc@who.int

 

Chair

Patrick Omwanda Amoth

Kenya - Acting Director General for Health, Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya

Vice-Chair

H.E. Ambassador Juan José Gómez Camacho

Mexico- Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, United States of America

Rapporteur

Clare Wenham

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - Associate Professor of Global Health Policy, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom

Members

Mohammad Abdelfattah

Egypt - Undersecretary for Preventive Affairs, Preventive Medicine Sector, Ministry of Health and Population, Cairo, Egypt

Obijiofor Aginam

Nigeria - Principal Visiting Fellow, United Nations University, International Institute for Global Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Mohannad Al-nsour

Executive Director, Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET), Amman, Jordan

Professor Gian Luca Burci

Senior Visiting Professor of International Law at the University of Geneva, Switzerland

Cherita Davis-Moxey

The Bahamas - Lead, Planning & Policy Unit, Ministry of Health & Wellness, The Bahamas

Andrew Forsyth

Manager, Public Health Strategy, Ministry of Health, New Zealand

Lawrence Gostin

United States of America - Professor, Founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law, and Faculty Director, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Unites States of America

Roojin Habibi

Canada - Research Fellow, Global Strategy Lab, York University, Toronto, Canada; Fellow, Canadian International Council; Lecturer, Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada

George Haringhuizen

The Netherlands - Chief Legal Officer, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Hani Jokhdar

Saudi Arabia - Deputy Minister for Public Health, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Yang Liu

Assistant Professor, Law School, and Director of the Center for Global Law and Strategy, Law and Technology Institute, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

Dr Rana Safdar
Aalisha Sahukhan

Head of Health Protection, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Suva, Fiji

Sandhya Dilhani Samarasekera

Consultant Community Physician, Quarantine Unit, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka

Vyacheslav Smolenskiy

Deputy Head, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor), Russian Federation

Sunita Sreedharan

Lawyer and Registered Patent Agent, New Delhi, India