The WG Pandemic Accord and IHR Reform is an initiative of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Fiocruz (Center for International Relations, CRIS) and the University of São Paulo, USP (Institute of International Relations, IRI; and Faculty of Public Health, with the Postgraduate Program in Global Health and Sustainability and the Center for Study and Research in Health Law, CEPEDISA).

Multidisciplinary in nature, the WG is composed of specialists and guests from the academic community, the health sector, civil society, parliament, and state agencies related to the theme. Aimed at the consolidation of a Global South, and particularly Brazilian, perspective of Global Health regulation, the GT intends to provide subsidies to society and the Brazilian State to critically monitor the ongoing negotiations and eventual formulation of proposals, as well as to promote and disseminate academic production on this theme.