Thank you.
The external review panel did include, in its recommendations, that we should include early warning signals, currently known as alerts, which should remain a core function of GPHIN's operations. As I mentioned, that is one of several products that comes out of the GPHIN program.
What we have done since the audit was done, and since the review, is to improve and streamline our decision-making process for the GPHIN alerts and other GPHIN products and processes. In looking in detail at the report that came from the independent review panel.... They also suggested that we look at the terminology that we're using around the use of alerts, and work with international colleagues to make sure there's alignment in the nature of alerts and the degree to which an assessment forms part of those alerts.
We have undertaken some work to bring that clarity, but, in my view, it was also a nod from the external panel in terms of the importance of early warning in general, and events-based surveillance systems, and the role that they can play in pandemic preparedness.
Thank you.