Nelson Aghogho Evaborhene

Biographic Data

ID9005768
NAMENelson Aghogho Evaborhene
GIVEN NAMESNelson Aghogho
FAMILY NAMEEvaborhene
SIGNATUREEVABORHENE N A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Witwatersrand
ORCID0000-0001-7712-6363
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • The WHO pandemic agreement—securing Africa’s leadership in a fragmenting global order

    Open AccessNelson Aghogho Evaborhene, Jessica Oga et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    In May 2025, the World Health Assembly adopted the historic WHO Pandemic Agreement, aimed at strengthening global pandemic preparedness and equity. This legally binding treaty emerged from years of negotiation shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic’s stark inequities—particularly those experienced by African nations. While the treaty introduces important innovations, notably the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing system, significant challenges remain. …

  • From PHEIC to PHECs

    Open AccessNelson Aghogho EvaborheneARTICLEGlobalization and Health2026

    In the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, the African Union elevated the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to autonomous status, empowering it to declare Public Health Emergencies of Continental Concern (PHECs). This mechanism was first operationalized in 2024 in response to sustained mpox transmission across multiple African countries, despite the World Health Organization’s (WHO) earlier lifting of the Public Health Emergen…

  • Africa’s Critical Role in Shaping and Implementing the Pandemic Agreement’s Pabs Annex in an Era of Fragmentation

    Open AccessNelson Aghogho EvaborheneARTICLEGlobalization and Health2026

    The adoption of the World Health Organization Pandemic Agreement in May 2025 marked a political commitment to stronger global pandemic preparedness. Its credibility, however, depends on the successful negotiation and implementation of the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing annex under Article 12, to be finalized by April 2026. The COVID 19 pandemic exposed the failures of voluntary global health mechanisms, as African countries rapidly shared pa…

  • Disinvesting in the future leadership of global health has already begun

    Open AccessShashika Bandara, Jane K Fieldhouse et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Following the abrupt and significant funding cuts by the U.S. and increasing retreat by high-income countries from development aid for health, global health as a field requires reimagining and urgent solution building by all parties involved. In this essay, we aim to draw attention to an important and urgent challenge that deeply affects our collective future: the destruction of global health training opportunities and the weakening of future glo…

  • Caught between violence

    Open AccessNelson Aghogho Evaborhene, Jessica Oga et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    box Countries in Africa are grappling with an ongoing multi-country outbreak of the Mpox virus

  • The WHO pandemic treaty

    Open AccessNelson Aghogho Evaborhene, Jessica Oga et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

  • The Pandemic Treaty, the Pandemic Fund, and the Global Commons

    Open AccessNelson Aghogho Evaborhene, Echezona Ejike Udokanma et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    The call to strengthen global health governance against future outbreaks through a binding treaty on pandemics has attracted global attention and opinion. Yet, few of these perspectives have reflected the voices from early career global health professionals in Africa. We share our perspectives on the Pandemic Treaty, and specifically our scepticism on the limitations of the current top-down approach of the treaty, and the need for the treaty to c…