(0) Chief of the newly formed Panel for a Global Public Health Convention (GPHC) today briefed members of the prestigious Club de Madrid, the largest forum of democratic former presidents and prime ministers from across the globe, about a set of new proposals aimed at improving how the world responds to international health emergencies and crises like COVID-19. The GPHC panel represents an independent coalition of global leaders working to strengthen the world's ability to prevent, prepare, and respond to infectious disease outbreaks before they become widespread pandemics. Dame Barbara Stocking, president of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge and chair of the GPHC panel, discussed in a closed virtual session of Club de Madrid key recommendations from a research project jointly conducted by the University of Miami (UM) with support from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), which will be published in the Lancet Public Health journal in the coming weeks.