LIST OF PANELS

Background
With the current global pandemic and simultaneous calls for a coordinated response to prevent zoonotic disease emergence and transmission, there is an urgent need to examine global and national governance responses to prevention. As evidence is key to ensuring the effectiveness of these responses, understanding the role of multiple forms of evidence in the development of governance strategies must also be prioritized.
 
From a One Health perspective, these governance responses will necessitate an integration of evidence and perspectives particularly at the intersection of the food, environment and health systems that give rise to poor health and inequalities. They will also rely on synergies between national and global governance institutions and structures to effectively address transnational threats to health.
 
Developing an actionable and evidence-based global governance approach for pandemic prevention presents significant challenges. Efforts to understand and shape policies, laws and systems must be based on an awareness of their inherent complexity and dynamism, as well as consider the intended and unintended consequences of introducing or changing governance structures.
 
Research questions
How have global or national governance approaches addressed pandemic prevention at the population level? How have these approaches been informed by evidence and considered the inherent complexities related to policy, law and/or systems?
 
Objectives
This session aims to showcase examples from recent empirical or theoretical approaches to global or national governance related to the prevention of pandemics. Specifically, efforts that have addressed the complexity of policy, law and systems and those that have considered intended and unintended consequence toward the health of populations will be highlighted.
 
Scientific relevance
Progress toward pandemic prevention at a global scale requires advances in the use of empirical and theoretical knowledge to inform national and global governance approaches. The aim is to explore national and global examples via the panel and discuss what is working, not working and how we can improve our efforts to develop relevant and robust global governance approaches to prevent pandemics and improve health and health equity.

Papers expected
We invite empirical, normative and theoretical papers that explore global or national governance in the context of disease prevention and work to support a coordinated response to prevent zoonotic disease emergence and transmission. These could include institutional analyses, systems analyses, legal analyses, comparative case-studies, evaluations of policy or research interventions, policy analyses etc.
 
In particular, we welcome work that has one or more of the following characteristics:

* Focuses on the mitigation of unintended consequences
* Applies an equity and/or ethical lens
* Explores the intersection between global and national governance for pandemic prevention
* Considers or identifies governance strategies for pandemic prevention that demand collaboration across sectors, such as health and the environment
* Interrogates tensions in governance strategies at different levels and across different sectors
* Highlights opportunities for integrated approaches to governance
* Employs multiple methods or lines of inquiry to understand approaches to governance for pandemic prevention
* Incorporates an understanding of the complexity of governance strategies and of the systems in which they are implemented
* Applies a One Health perspective