WHO released a transcript of a press briefing by Dr. Harvey Fineberg, Chair, International Health Regulations Review Committee, on 29 September 2010 following the third meeting of the IHR Review Committee. Dr, Fienberg noted that the has a dual charge, “…We’re constituted under the terms of the International Health Regulations of 2005 which called for a review after five years of the performance of the International Health Regulations. We’re also constituted specifically to review the performance and activities in connection with the H1N1 pandemic. Importantly this pandemic, the H1N1 pandemic was the first incidence under the implemented rules of the IHR of 2005 which went into effect legally in 2007. The first instance where there was a declared public health emergency of international concern. This is a special classification under the terms of the International Health Regulations, and it’s under that authority that the World Health Organization operated to carry out its programmes and activity under H1N1 and so these two are closely enough related that it was deemed appropriate to look at both simultaneously and that in turn affects the approach that the committee is taking in preparing our report…”

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