Neglected Dimensions of Global Security: The Global Health Risk Framework Commission

315 JAMA 1451-1452 (March 2016)

3 Pages Posted: 10 Aug 2017

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Lawrence O. Gostin

Georgetown University - Law Center - O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law

Patrick Kelley

The National Academies - Institute of Medicine (IOM)

Carmen Mundaca-Shah

The National Academies - National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

Date Written: March 24, 2016

Abstract

The world has experienced global health crises ranging from novel influenzas (H5N1 and H1N1) and coronaviruses (SARS and MERS) to the Ebola and Zika viruses. In each case, governments and international organizations seemed unable to react quickly and decisively. Health crises have unmasked critical vulnerabilities — weak health systems, failures of leadership, and political overreaction and underreaction. The Global Health Risk Framework Commission, for which the National Academy of Medicine served as the secretariat, recently set out a comprehensive strategy to safeguard human and economic security from pandemic threats.

Keywords: global health, health security, national health systems, infectious disease

Suggested Citation

Gostin, Lawrence O. and Kelley, Patrick and Mundaca-Shah, Carmen, Neglected Dimensions of Global Security: The Global Health Risk Framework Commission (March 24, 2016). 315 JAMA 1451-1452 (March 2016), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2788891

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Carmen Mundaca-Shah

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