What Does the Monkeypox Outbreak Tell Us about Global Health Governance? Critical Remarks on the New WHO Declaration of Public Health Emergency of International Concern

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Donato Greco is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and teaching assistant in Public International Law at the Department of Law, University of Naples Federico II. His research focuses on law-making and interpretation, the relationship between international law and municipal legal systems, global health law, international economic law and international protection of human rights.

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What Does the Monkeypox Outbreak Tell Us about Global Health Governance? Critical Remarks on the New WHO Declaration of Public Health Emergency of International Concern

August 10, 2022

Donato Greco

On 23 July 2022, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) declared that the outbreak of monkeypox constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (“PHEIC”). Under Art. 1 of the 2005 International Health Regulations (“IHRs”), a PHEIC means “an extraordinary event which is determined […] (i) to…