Planning for large epidemics and pandemics: challenges from a policy perspective

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases
Vageesh JainDaniel G Bausch

Abstract

Less than two decades into the 21st century, the world has already witnessed numerous large epidemics or pandemics. These events have highlighted inadequacies in both national and international capacity for outbreak prevention, detection, and response. Here, we review some of the major challenges from a policy perspective. The most important challenges facing policymakers include financing outbreak preparedness and response in a complex political environment with limited resources, coordinating response efforts among a growing and diverse range of national and international actors, accurately assessing national outbreak preparedness, addressing the shortfall in the global biomedical workforce, building surge capacity of both human and material resources, balancing investments in public health and curative services, building capacity for outbreak-related research and development, and reinforcing measures for infection prevention and control. In recent years, numerous epidemics and pandemics have caused not only considerable loss of life but also billions of dollars of economic loss. Although the events have served as a wake-up call and led to the implementation of relevant policies and counter-measures, such as the Global Health...Continue Reading

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Dec 5, 2019·Journal of Public Health Policy·Vageesh Jain
Sep 13, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Alexandra HorobetLucian Belascu
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Apr 15, 2020·Annual Review of Pathology·Jean-Laurent Casanova, Laurent Abel
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May 13, 2021·Health and Technology·Reza SafdariMarsa Gholamzadeh
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