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Prepare to Be Watched: W.H.O. Agrees to Boost Global Pandemic ‘Surveillance’

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) adopted a landmark Pandemic Agreement designed to help it tackle future pandemic crises built on an ability to watch and surveil countries.

Prepare to be watched. The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) adopted a landmark Pandemic Agreement on Tuesday designed to help it tackle future health crises predicated on an enhanced ability to watch, monitor and surveil specific national responses to threats.

The U.N. subsidiary is meeting at its headquarters by the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland with upwards of 8,000 members flying in for the nine-days of talks, meetings, conferences, dinners, and closed-door diplomacy.