Global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property: implementation 2021-2023

Overview

Following a two-year negotiation process, the Sixty-first World Health Assembly adopted, in May 2008, resolution WHA61.21 on the global strategy and plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property, for the period 2008‒2015. In the following year, the Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA62.16 (2009), in which it finalized the list of stakeholders responsible for the implementation of each element and sub-element, established progress indicators for each element, and proposed time frames in which the specified actions should be accomplished.

Concerned about the pace of implementation, the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly in 2015 decided in resolution WHA68.18 to extend the time frame of the plan of action from 2015 until 2022 and to undertake an overall programme review. In 2017, the report of the review panel recommended a way forward, including details of what elements or actions should be added, enhanced or concluded in the next stage of implementation until 2022.

This summary of progress responds to the request to the WHO Secretariat to draw up a detailed implementation plan and establish a mechanism to support implementation and monitoring of the global strategy and plan of action in line with the recommendations of the review panel. Additionally, in 2022, in resolution WHA75.14, the World Health Assembly decided to extend the time frame of the plan of action on public health, innovation and intellectual property from 2022 to 2030. An implementation plan for the GSPA-PHI for the biennium 2024-26, with progress indicators, will be published online.