Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats (PRET) initiative

April 19, 2023

It is a World Health Organisation (WHO) initiative to improve the disease pandemic preparedness.
PRET focuses on improving pandemic preparedness for groups of pathogens based on their modes of transmission.
PRET operates under the aegis of the International Health Regulations (IHR), which is a critical international legal instrument for managing public health emergencies.
PRET recognizes three tiers of systems and capacities relevant for pandemic preparedness:
- those that are cross-cutting for all or multi-hazard,
- those that are relevant for groups of pathogens, and
- those that are specific to a pathogen.