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Global Health Security - A Blueprint for the Future (Hardcover)
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Global Health Security - A Blueprint for the Future (Hardcover)
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With lessons learned from COVID-19, a world-leading expert on
pandemic preparedness proposes a pragmatic plan urgently needed for
the future of global health security. The COVID-19 pandemic
revealed how unprepared the world was for such an event, as even
the most sophisticated public health systems failed to cope. We
must have far more investment and preparation, along with better
detection, warning, and coordination within and across national
boundaries. In an age of global pandemics, no country can achieve
public health on its own. Health security planning is paramount.
Lawrence O. Gostin has spent three decades designing resilient
health systems and governance that take account of our
interconnected world, as a close advisor to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO),
and many public health agencies globally. Global Health Security
addresses the borderless dangers societies now face, including
infectious diseases and bioterrorism, and examines the political,
environmental, and socioeconomic factors exacerbating these
threats. Weak governance, ineffective health systems, and lack of
preparedness are key sources of risk, and all of them came to the
fore during the COVID-19 crisis, even-sometimes especially-in
wealthy countries like the United States. But the solution is not
just to improve national health policy, which can only react after
the threat is realized at home. Gostin further proposes robust
international institutions, tools for effective cross-border risk
communication and action, and research programs targeting the
global dimension of public health. Creating these systems will
require not only sustained financial investment but also shared
values of cooperation, collective responsibility, and equity.
Gostin has witnessed the triumph of these values in national and
international forums and has a clear plan to tackle the challenges
ahead. Global Health Security therefore offers pragmatic solutions
that address the failures of the recent past, while looking toward
what we know is coming. Nothing could be more important to the
future health of nations.
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