WHO Pandemic Agreement · PABS Annex

Bringing the PABS Annex to life: a simulation tool for the negotiations

Simulates how the proposed terms of the WHO Pandemic Agreement’s Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing Annex would work in a future pandemic, to serve the negotiations ahead of the World Health Assembly in May 2027.

Member States approve the WHO Pandemic Agreement in Committee A, Geneva, 19 May 2025. Photo: © WHO / Pierre Albouy

The simulation tool

Build a whole package of positions on the seven key issues of the annex and see whether the Parties could sign it, what it would deliver in four outbreak scenarios, and which trades would close the gap. Runs entirely in your browser.

Open the simulation tool

Minister’s brief (test version)

Pick your country, pick the deal on the table, and get a one-page cheat sheet: would a COVID 2.0 in 2027 leave your country better or worse off than in 2020–23? Pakistan is the worked example.

Open the minister’s brief

The proposal

Twelve slides on why the annex is stuck, what the tool shows, how it protects delegations’ privacy, and the plan, budget and governance for a working prototype.

Read the proposal

Illustrative model for discussion. Not validated. Base text: draft PABS Annex, on-screen text as at 30 April 2026 (A79/8). Bloc positions are a first coding from public statements, for coordinators to correct. Not affiliated with or endorsed by WHO.

Images: WHO photo © WHO / Pierre Albouy, used with credit. Nelson Mandela photo by South Africa The Good News, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; quote attributed to Nelson Mandela.

Contact: Christina Liu.