"Declaring a PHEIC makes governments and the global public sit up and take notice. It raises the political stakes for government leaders, and it raises the level of accountability for them to act."

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, on the United Nations declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern for monkeypox. In Will Sullivan, "WHO Declares Monkeypox a Global Health Emergency", Smithsonian Magazine (July 26, 2022).