Have you ever wondered what it might be like to take leadership on the world-stage in the face of a global health crisis?
For the first time in it’s four-year history, the MonWHO Secretariat is proud to provide delegates with the unique opportunity to experience, in real-time, what it is like to be a country’s Ambassador to the WHO facing a Level 6 Pandemic.
Delegates will need to respond to live updates from their home governments, deal with the critical eye of the media and NGOs, and weigh the consequences of the private interests of powerful pharmaceutical companies while attempting to maintain united global leadership as the stress of the crisis quickly takes a toll on international relations.
The overarching goal for delegates will be to develop comprehensive guidelines towards how Pandemics should be managed as a formal response to the panic erupting both in their home nation and internationally. All resolutions will be brought to the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
Like at the real World Health Organization, delegates will need to balance developing solutions to crisis situations that affect individual nations with developing a united international response.
Delegates will begin to address the situation in one of four Regional Blocks (Americas, Africa, Europe & Western Mediterranean or South-East Asia & Western Pacific) before moving into a general Plenary session.
The Secretariat will be providing delegates with a comprehensive interactive background guide. This guide will orient delegates to the aspects of Pandemic Preparedness that concern their nation and are particularly pertinent to global discussion.
In an effort to make the conference atmosphere as realistic as possible, the Secretariat will provide delegates with a guide outlining the rules of procedure (how to speak, how to make a motion, how to ask a question, how to vote, how to write a resolution, etc.), adapted from the rules of procedures carried out at the World Health Organization, that they must adhere to during the simulation.
The Secretariat will provide delegates with a live training session regarding the rules of procedure and provide advice on how delegates should address some common scenarios that will arise during the crisis simulation.
