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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20211026-182738-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/towards-member-driven-international-pandemic-lawmaking/ Towards Member-driven International Pandemic Lawmaking Lin, Ching-Fu Wu, Chuan-Feng eng 2021-10-26 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 COVID 19 Pandemic WHO Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The COVID-19 pandemic has blatantly exposed the flaws of the World Health Organization (WHO) and its International Health Regulations (IHR) in addressing cross-border communicable diseases. We argue that the IHR is ill-designed: its rules and mechanisms are disproportionately tied to the Director General’s (DG) exercise of power, rendering insufficient member access to and participation in core decision-making and greater tendency of regulatory capture.