Where to Now for Reform of Global Health Governance?

In 2015, the United Nations Secretary-General established a High-level Panel on the Global Response to Health Crises to consider the lessons learned from the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa and to make recommendations to strengthen the capacity of the international community to respond to future health crises. This guest editorial considers the recommendations of the High-level Panel in relation to the role of the International Health Regulations in providing a framework for the global control of communicable diseases, the complex issue of building capacity within national health systems, recommendations for a re-positioning of the role of the World Health Organization, regional and global responses to health emergencies, the funding of global health emergency preparedness and response, and the role of gender in global health governance.