The International Health Regulations (ihr), of which the World Health Organization is custodian, govern how countries collectively promote global health security, including prevention, detection, and response to potential global health emergencies such as the ongoing covid-19 pandemic. While Article 44 of this binding legal instrument requires countries to collaborate and assist each other in meeting their respective obligations, recent events demonstrate that the precise nature and scope of these legal obligations are ill-understood. A shared understanding of the level and type of collaboration legally required by the ihr is a necessary step in ensuring these obligations can be acted upon and fully realized, and in fostering global solidarity and resilience in the face of future pandemics. In this consensus statement, public international law scholars specializing in global health consider the legal meaning of Article 44 using the interpretive framework of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

由世界卫生组织保管的《国际卫生条例》 ( ihr ) 管理各国如何共同促进全球卫生安全，包括预防、检测和应对潜在的全球卫生紧急情况，例如正在进行的covid -19 大流行。尽管该具有约束力的法律文书的第 44 条要求各国在履行各自义务方面相互合作和协助，但最近发生的事件表明，这些法律义务的确切性质和范围并未得到充分理解。对《国际卫生条例》法律要求的合作水平和类型达成共识是确保这些义务能够得到履行和充分实现的必要步骤，也是在面对未来大流行病时促进全球团结和复原力的必要步骤。在这份共识声明中，专门研究全球卫生的国际公法学者使用《维也纳条约法公约》的解释框架来考虑第 44 条的法律含义。