The O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University responds to the need for innovative solutions to the most pressing global health concerns by bringing together experts from the public health and legal fields. The Foundation for the National Institutes of Health creates and leads alliances and public-private partnerships that advance breakthrough biomedical discoveries and improve the quality of people’s lives. Contributing authors are: Kevin A. Klock, senior vice president, chief operating officer, and general counsel at the FNIH and a scholar at the O’Neill Institute; Lawrence O. Gostin, founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law at Georgetown University and faculty director at the O’Neill Institute; Alexandra Finch, associate at the O’Neill Institute; Sarah Wetter, associate at the O’Neill Institute; and Vanessa S. Perlman, assistant general counsel at the FNIH. Klock and Gostin lead the O’Neill Institute/FNIH project on an international instrument for pandemic prevention and preparedness. The FNIH provided funding to the O’Neill Institute for the project. Gostin is the director of the WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. WHO is an intellectual nonfinancial partner to the FNIH-managed GeneConvene Global Collaborative.