 The World Health Organization is facing a potential shake-up aimed at preventing future outbreaks from destroying lives and livelihoods. Health ministers agree to study recommendations for ambitious reforms made by independent experts to strengthen the capacity of both the UN agency and countries to continue pathogens. Under the resolution submitted by the European Union and adopted by consensus, the member states are to be firmly in the driver's seat of the reforms through a year-long process. The new virus has infected more than 170 million people and killed nearly 3.7 million according to Reuters' tally of official national figures. We've seen with Ebola, we've seen with other diseases, they can amplify and spread in our communities and our healthcare facilities, unknown, unseen and undetected until they then spread within countries and between countries, endangering all of humanity. They can then kill us and disrupt every aspect of our lives. They exploit our interconnectedness. They expose our lack of coordination, our lack of solidarity, our societal inequities. In short, the pathogens are winning this fight right now and that should not be the status quo and it should not be something we accept. Therefore, we really do welcome the recommendations within the resolutions and also the proposed decision to take this forward to an international agreement or framework convention and preparedness and response for pandemics.