The last five years saw a significant return of epidemic infectious
disease, culminating in COVID-19. In our new post-COVID-19 world,
how do we prevent future illnesses by expanding scientific and
vaccine diplomacy and cooperation, especially to combat the
problems that humans have brought on ourselves? Modern diseases and
viruses have been spurred anew by war and conflict as well as
shifting poverty, urbanization, climate change, and a new troubling
anti-science/anti-vaccination outlook. From such
twenty-first-century forces, we have seen declines in previous
global health gains, with sharp increases in vaccine-preventable
and neglected diseases on the Arabian Peninsula, in Venezuela, in
parts of Africa, and even on the Gulf Coast of the United States.
In Preventing the Next Pandemic, international vaccine scientist
and tropical disease and coronavirus expert Peter J. Hotez, MD,
PhD, argues that we can-and must-rely on vaccine diplomacy to
address this new world order in disease and global health.
Detailing his years in the lab developing new vaccines, Hotez also
recounts his travels around the world to shape vaccine partnerships
with people in countries both rich and poor in an attempt to head
off major health problems. Building on the legacy of Dr. Albert
Sabin, who developed the oral polio vaccine with Soviet scientists
at the height of the Cold War, he explains how he is still working
to refresh and redirect vaccine diplomacy toward neglected and
newly emerging diseases. Hotez reveals how-during his Obama-era
tenure as the US Science Envoy for the Middle East and North
Africa, which coincided with both the rise in these geopolitical
forces and climate change-he witnessed tropical infectious diseases
and established vaccine partnerships that may still combat them up
close. He explores why, since 2015, we've seen the decline of
global cooperation and cohesion, to the detriment of those programs
that are meant to benefit the most vulnerable people in the world.
Unfortunately, Hotez asserts, these negative global events kick off
a never-ending loop. Problems in a country may lead to disease
outbreaks, but those outbreaks can lead to further problems-such as
the impact of coronavirus on China's society and economy, which has
been felt around the globe. Zeroing in on the sociopolitical and
environmental factors that drive our most controversial and
pressing global health concerns, Hotez proposes historically proven
methods to soothe fraught international relations while preparing
us for a safer, healthier future. He hammers home the importance of
public engagement to communicate the urgency of embracing science
during troubled times. Touching on a range of disease, from
leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis, and Middle East Respiratory
Syndrome (MERS) to COVID-19, Preventing the Next Pandemic has
always been a timely goal, but it will be even more important in a
COVID and post-COVID world.
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