GLOBAL FORESIGHT GROUP

Preparing legal and institutional arrangements for preventing or containing future pandemics through anticipation, assessment and the design of negotiating processes to achieve preferred outcomes... The Global Foresight Group for pandemic preparedness, surveillance and response is focused on addressing gaps and bottlenecks in global instruments (from informal to formal/soft to hard) to improve pandemic surveillance, preparedness and response. In addition to considering the threat posed by naturally occurring viruses and other pathogens, and potential responses to them, the objective includes to study and monitor the global system for regulating genetic manipulation technologies, and to propose legal and institutional frameworks to better exercise control over this work.

Also known as: Global Medicines Council