The Chancery of the Accra Reset, an African health and economic sovereignty initiative championed by President John Mahama, has announced the establishment of a high-level panel on Reform of the Global Health Architecture and Governance.
The initiative will bring together 18 global experts tasked with producing “concrete, actionable proposals” to restructure what organisers say is an unequal global health architecture.
The panel will be co-chaired by prominent international figures, including Peter Piot, El Hadj As Sy, Nísia Trindade, and Budi Gunadi Sadikin.
According to a statement on Friday, April 3, 2026, from the Chancery of the Accra Reset, the panel’s mandate is to challenge a global system that has historically treated developing countries as “passive takers” rather than sovereign actors.
“The panel has a mandate to produce concrete, actionable proposals for restructuring a global health order that has treated governments of the Global South as passive takers rather than as sovereign actors,” the statement said.
The panel’s work will be guided by a High-Level Consultative Group, which includes major global institutions such as the World Health Organization, World Trade Organization, the Global Fund, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and the International Finance Corporation.
The statement indicated that the panel will begin work immediately, with its terms of reference expected to be shaped by inputs from platforms including the World Health Assembly and the United Nations General Assembly.
Former UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé has been appointed Special Advisor to the panel and envoy of the co-chairs.
“Mr Sidibé brings to the role decades of operational engagement with the architecture the panel is charged with reforming,” the statement noted.
The panel includes a wide range of policymakers, academics and industry leaders from across Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
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