Neglected Dimensions of Global Security: The Global Health Risk Framework Commission
315 JAMA 1451-1452 (March 2016)
3 Pages Posted: 10 Aug 2017
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
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