New Delhi, Sept. 26 -- Union Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava reaffirmed the nation's commitment to strengthening global health security through international cooperation while representing India at the UN High-Level Meeting on 'Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response' in New York.

Addressing the meeting at the United Nations Headquarters, Srivastava stressed the need to translate the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic into sustained investment, institutional capacity and resilient health systems.

She outlined India's coordinated approach to pandemic prevention and response across government and society, which covers a wide range of potential health emergencies.

She spoke of the country's efforts to expand laboratory netwo...