Externe Publikationen

Governing the pandemics: moving towards an assertive institutional environment

Cho, Min Jung / V.S. Saravanan / Eun, K.J.
Externe Publikationen (2021)

in: Journal of Global Health 11

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.11.03021
Open access

The global pandemic of coronavirus should be a clarion call to revamp global and national health institutions and their approaches. This new virus exhibits high transmissibility and with no medical countermeasures poses a risk to health systems worldwide. A few months prior to this pandemic, the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) warned that ‘there is a very real threat of a rapidly moving, highly lethal pandemic of a respiratory pathogen killing 50 to 80 million people and affecting nearly 5% of the world's economy. Unfortunately, the world did not expect that this would strike soon.

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