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Global health and the summits
COVID-19 showed how quickly a health crisis becomes an economic one. We follow how the G7 and G20 prepare for the next pandemic and finance health systems.
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Why it matters
Health security became a permanent summit item after COVID-19. The G20 created a joint finance and health track and a Pandemic Fund, and leaders return regularly to preparedness, vaccines and outbreak response.
The agenda also covers antimicrobial resistance, health-system financing and women’s health, which the W20 frames as an economic issue as much as a medical one. For employers and the health industry, these discussions shape supply chains, regulation and public investment.
On the summit agenda
Pandemic preparedness
The World Health Assembly adopted the WHO Pandemic Agreement in May 2025, and the Pandemic Fund, created under the G20 in 2022 and hosted by the World Bank, finances preparedness in lower-income countries. Summits continue to test how far these commitments are funded and implemented.
Financing global health
Gavi, the Global Fund and the WHO all depend on donor pledges, and recent replenishment rounds have come under pressure from tighter aid budgets. The United States' withdrawal from the WHO, which took effect in January 2026, has added to the debate over who pays and through which institutions.
Antimicrobial resistance
Drug-resistant infections are a growing cause of death worldwide. In 2024 the UN General Assembly adopted a political declaration on antimicrobial resistance that includes a target to cut related deaths by 10 percent by 2030, and the G7 and G20 have both made it a recurring theme.
Vaccines, diagnostics and supply chains
The 100 Days Mission, launched under the UK's G7 presidency in 2021, aims to have safe vaccines, treatments and diagnostics ready within 100 days of a new pandemic threat. It puts manufacturing capacity, regulatory cooperation and supply chains firmly on the summit agenda.
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