Mpox: Neglect has led to a more dangerous virus now spreading across borders, harming and killing people. Leaders must take action to stop mpox now

Christine McNab; Els Torreele; Ayoade Alakija; Aggrey Aluso; Mauricio Cárdenas; Brendan Crabb; Mark Dybul; Patricia J Garcia; Lawrence O Gostin; Angel Gurría; Jane Halton; Adam Kamradt-Scott; Michel Kazatchkine; Helena Legido-Quigley; Joanne Liu; Suman Majumdar; Henry E Mark; Rosemary McCarney; David Miliband; Winnie Mpanju-Shumbusho; Selina Namchee Lo; Anders Nordström; Raj Panjabi; Jorge Saavedra; Nina Schwalbe; Barbara M Stocking; Eloise Todd; Clare Wenham; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; Helen Clark

doi:10.1371/journal.pgph.0003714

Mpox: Neglect has led to a more dangerous virus now spreading across borders, harming and killing people. Leaders must take action to stop mpox now

PLOS Glob Public Health. 2024 Oct 17;4(10):e0003714. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0003714. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Christine McNab^{1

2}, Els Torreele³, Ayoade Alakija⁴, Aggrey Aluso⁵, Mauricio Cárdenas⁶, Brendan Crabb⁷, Mark Dybul⁸, Patricia J Garcia⁹, Lawrence O Gostin¹⁰, Angel Gurría¹¹, Jane Halton¹², Adam Kamradt-Scott¹³, Michel Kazatchkine¹⁴, Helena Legido-Quigley¹⁵, Joanne Liu¹⁶, Suman Majumdar¹⁷, Henry E Mark¹⁸, Rosemary McCarney¹⁹, David Miliband²⁰, Winnie Mpanju-Shumbusho²¹, Selina Namchee Lo²², Anders Nordström²³, Raj Panjabi²⁴, Jorge Saavedra²⁵, Nina Schwalbe²⁶, Barbara M Stocking²⁷, Eloise Todd²⁸, Clare Wenham²⁹, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf³⁰, Helen Clark³¹

Affiliations

¹ Independent Consultant, Toronto, Canada.
² Former Member of The Independent Panel's Secretariat, Toronto, Canada.
³ Independent Researcher and Advisor, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ FIND and Special Envoy to ACT-A and Co-Chair of the ACT-A Principals, Abuja, Nigeria.
⁵ Resilience Action Network Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁶ Former Minister of Finance of Colombia and Member of The Independent Panel, Bogota Colombia.
⁷ Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
⁸ Diplomat, Physician and Medical Researcher, Member of The Independent Panel, Washington, United States of America.
⁹ Former Minister of Health of Peru and Member of the PGPHC, Lima, Peru.
¹⁰ Professor and Chair in Global Health Law and Member of the PGPHC, Washington, United States of America.
¹¹ Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Member of the PGPHC, Mexico City, Mexico.
¹² Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Member of the PGPHC, Canberra, Australia.
¹³ Cummings Foundation Professor of One Health Diplomacy, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, United States of America.
¹⁴ The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Member of The Independent Panel, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹⁵ Professor in Health Systems, George Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
¹⁶ Doctors Without Borders, Member of The Independent Panel, Montreal, Canada.
¹⁷ Chief Health Officer - COVID and Emergencies, Deputy Program Director, Health Security and Pandemic Preparedness, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
¹⁸ Independent Consultant, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
¹⁹ Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, Toronto, Canada.
²⁰ Former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, Member of The Independent Panel, New York, United States of America.
²¹ Former WHO Assistant Director General, Member of the PGPHC, Chêne-Bougeries, Switzerland.
²² Australian Global Health Alliance, Melbourne, Australia.
²³ Former Global Health Ambassador for Sweden, Former Head of Secretariat of The Independent Panel, Stockholm, Sweden.
²⁴ Former White House Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense, Former Advisor to The Independent Panel, Springfield, United States of America.
²⁵ AHF Global Public Health Institute, Member of the PGPHC, Miami, United States of America.
²⁶ Spark Street Advisors, New York, United States of America.
²⁷ Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, Chair of the PGPHC, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
²⁸ Pandemic Action Network, Brussels, Belgium.
²⁹ Associate Professor of Global Health Policy, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom.
³⁰ Former President of Liberia, Member of The Elders, Co-Chair of The Independent Panel, Monrovia, Liberia.
³¹ Former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Member of The Elders, Co-Chair of The Independent Panel, Auckland, New Zealand.

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Grants and funding

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is supporting the ongoing work of The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response under INV-059481. CM, HEM, AN are consultants under this grant. CM led the writing and coordination of this manuscript. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.