Global health security : a blueprint for the future / Lawrence O. Gostin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gostin, Lawrence O. (Lawrence Ogalthorpe), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World health.

Communicable diseases--Prevention.

Communicable diseases.

Security, International.

Biosecurity.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Great Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020

Part I: Growing Threats

1 The Impending Threat

2 The Human Link

3 Humanity’s Biggest Killer

4 Disease by Decision: Human-Induced Threats to Biosafety and Biosecurity

5 Antimicrobial Resistance: Superbugs and the Imperative to Stop Them

6 The Climate Crisis

Part II: From Risk to Action

7 Governing Global Health Security

8 International Pathogen Sharing and Global Health Equity

9 Universal Health Coverage

10 Global Medical War Chest

In and beyond the Age of COVID-19: What Does the Future Hold?

Appendix: Tabletop Exercises to Prepare for the Impact

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Gostin, Lawrence O. (Lawrence Ogalthorpe), author. Global health security : a blueprint for the future

ISBN:

9780674269606

0674269608

9780674269590

0674269594

OCLC:

1272995366