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Blair Peterson

Larry Brilliant is humanity's best hope against the next pandemic (Wired UK) - 1 views

  • The key goals of the pandemics team at the SGTF are detecting an outbreak faster, verifying that it's a real sign and getting a connected network of people to talk about what's going on.
Blair Peterson

SARS: A Pandemic Prevented (2013) - 0 views

  • The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) network of 11 laboratories in nine countries around the world worked to combat the disease.
  • Transparency and a commitment to sharing the best available scientific information led to a better outcome.
  • Clear and effective communication among scientists, policy makers, and the public helped avoid SARS deaths in the United States.
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    "SARS: A Pandemic Prevented (2013)"
Blair Peterson

The Challenges of Global Health Governance - Council on Foreign Relations - 2 views

  • The outbreak of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) found countries scrambling for access to vaccines, an unseemly process that led the World Health Organization to call for a new "global framework" on equitable influenza vaccine access.
Blair Peterson

WHO | Global health diplomacy: training across disciplines - 0 views

  • foreign policy is now being driven substantially by health to protect national security, free trade and economic advancement.
  • he United Kingdom is attempting to establish policy coherence with the development of a central governmental global health strategy based on health as a human right and global public good.
  • Switzerland has prioritized health in foreign policy by emphasizing policy coherence through mapping global health across all government sectors.3 Through the Departments of Interior (Public Health) and Foreign Affairs, an agreement on the objectives of international health policy was submitted to the Swiss Federal Council to assure coordinated development assistance, trade policies and national health policies that serve global health.
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  • Today, Brazilian diplomats serve key roles in health and other ministries to assure policy coherence across the government; they have also provided leadership in key multinational health negotiations such as the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. The Global Health Security Initiative (GHSI) is an international partnership to strengthen health preparedness and response globally to biological, chemical, radio-nuclear and pandemic influenza threats.
  • he interface between trade and health is, in fact, on the cutting edge of health diplomacy. Health professionals need to understand this interaction to assure rational trade agreements, informed by health needs and supported through progressive foreign policy.6
  • It may not matter which takes preference, but it is clear that the growing concern for multilateral cooperation on critical global health problems requires purposeful engagement in learning across these two sectors. In addition, there is a need to include nongovernmental actors, philanthropy and the private sector in this exciting new field of study.
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