Recovering with learnings of COVID-19 pandemic and other ongoing surge of infections, World Health Organisation is launching an initiative to help countries ensure systems and capacities to speed up every aspect of their management of emerging threats, from response and recovery. 

Calling it as Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threat initiative or PRET, will be hosted in a global meeting on 24-26th April, 2023 and would be launched first with a focus on respiratory pathogens. 

It mainly focuses on improvement of pandemic preparedness by focusing mainly on the mode of transmission of pathogens. 

It particularly aims to strengthen existing systems and capacities and to fill gaps.