G-20 must invest in collective health to ready for next pandemic

Members should contribute more to fund prevention, preparedness and response

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A healthcare worker takes a swab sample to test for COVID-19 in Jakarta in December 2021: Viruses know no borders. © Reuters

Budi Gunadi Sadikin is Minister of Health of Indonesia. Sri Mulyani Indrawati is Minister of Finance of Indonesia.

When Indonesia assumed the presidency of the Group of 20 in December 2021, our ambition was clear on what we wanted to achieve on the health front: to make lasting and concrete changes to the global health architecture that would allow nations to better prevent, prepare for and respond collectively to global health crises and to address vulnerabilities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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