Research On WHO Legal Governance Under COVID-19 Challenge

The current laws of who include three international treaties and a large number of soft laws.As a framework law in the field of infectious diseases,IHR is of great significance to public health governance.The outbreak of COVID-19 has brought enormous challenges to public health management for WHO.WHO has taken various measures to control the epidemic according to relevant laws,including announcing COVID-19 as PHEIC,issuing temporary recommendations and long-term recommendations,and launching joint anti epidemic measures with several international organizations.The effect of these measures is not ideal.From the outside to the inside,the paper analyzes the shortcomings of WHO’s existing laws through WHO’s response to COVID-19’s performance,including the lack of binding force in WHO’s soft law.WHO has not fully applied the quasi legislative power and leadership status for a long time,and the current international health regulations still have difficulties in the implementation process.In view of the above shortcomings,the author puts forward the multi-dimensional improvement path of who law.Specifically,who should enhance its governance capacity to provide internal power for the improvement of who law;improve the binding force of soft law to supplement the deficiency of the effectiveness of the current treaty law;start from enhancing the core capacity of the Contracting States,strengthening the "compliance gravity" of the international health regulations,and establishing a standardized and transparent pheic We should improve the compliance mechanism of IHR in several aspects.Finally,the improvement of who law should take the public idea of human destiny as the internal pursuit,realize the collaborative governance under the who legal framework,and jointly promote the global public health governance under the leadership of who.