G20 High-Level Independent Panel on Financing Pandemic Preparedness and Response

COVID-19 upended societies and economies across the world, starkly demonstrating the need for all nations to invest in pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPR). At the same time major drivers of pandemic risk are rising, and epidemics are occurring at higher frequency, with more severity, and with broader potential for global impact. The pandemic of tomorrow is not a theoretical risk – it can happen at any time. However, despite these rising risks, countries are still grossly under-invested in pandemic preparedness and response.

Now, amid rising social distrust and fragmentation many countries have begun scaling back official development assistance, causing significant disruptions to global health efforts. Against this backdrop, the G20 High Level Panel on Financing Pandemic Preparedness and Response has issued recommendations to accelerate financing for global health security preparedness and response. The panel’s report, Closing the Deal: Financing Our Security Against Pandemic Threats, sets out critical, actionable investments to expand access to medical countermeasures and strengthen the financing and mobilization of domestic resources for pandemic preparedness.

2026

HLIP Co-Chairs Call for Urgent Action to Accelerate Financing for Ebola and Related Medical Countermeasures

The HLIP Co-Chairs are releasing new priority actions to accelerate financing for regional access to medical countermeasures (MCM). The work of the HLIP has been made more acute with the 2026 emergence and spread of Ebola Bundibugyo (BDBV). While some progress has been made in surging research and development (R&D) financing to spur development and testing for vaccine candidates and therapeutics, there is still no standing capability for financing the procurement, stockpiling, and deployment of a range of critical countermeasures for different species of Ebola virus or for the related Marburg virus.

Against this backdrop, on June 22, 2026, the HLIP Co-Chairs are calling for a set of urgent priority actions to accelerate surge financing for Ebola and related MCM.

2025 Report

Closing the Deal: Financing Our Security Against Pandemic Threats

About the Report

The G20 High Level Independent Panel sets minimum annual benchmarks for pandemic financing and urges governments to take action by or before the September 2026 United Nations High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response.

Report Resources

Panel Members

Victor Dzau (Co-Chair) | Chancellor Emeritus and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Duke University; Former NAM President (2014-2026)
Jane Halton (Co-Chair) | Chair of the Board, CEPI
Jean Kaseya (Co-Chair) | Director General, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
Benedict Oramah (Co-Chair) | Former President and Chair of the Board, Afreximbank; and Chair of the African Medical Centers of Excellence
John-Arne Røttingen (Co-Chair) | CEO, Wellcome Trust
Seth Berkley | former CEO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; and Senior Advisor to the Brown Pandemic Center
Chris Elias | President of Global Development Division, The Gates Foundation
Amanda Glassman | Executive Advisor to the President, Inter-American Development Bank
Rachel Glennerster | President, Center for Global Development
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw | Founder and Executive Chairperson, Biocon
Syarifah Liza Munira | Senior Advisor, Joep Lange Institute Center for Health Diplomacy; and Former Director General of Health Policy, Ministry of Health, Indonesia
David Miliband | President and CEO, International Rescue Committee
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala | Director-General, World Trade Organization
Patricia Reilly | Member of the Cabinet of European Union President Ursula von der Leyen
Keizo Takemi | Former Member of the House of Councillors, Japan
Elizabeth Cameron (Special Advisor) | Senior Advisor to the Brown Pandemic Center and Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health

The G20 Italian Presidency originally convened the High-Level Panel on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response in 2021. The Panel’s first report, A Global Deal for Our Pandemic Age, identified four major gaps in PPR and proposed nine solutions. Related resources include a high-level summary, public briefing, and press release.