Resetting Our Future: A Global Playbook for the Next Pandemic

The health and economic devastation caused by COVID-19 has highlighted the need for a global pandemic playbook. Countries must collaborate to create early warning systems, preparedness, prevention, responses, and containment, but who should pay the cost? Anne Kabagambe argues that neglecting to create a global playbook now would cost far more when the next pandemic strikes.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 15 October 2020
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

The devastating impact of COVID-19 on health and the economy has underscored the inadequacy of most countries' national health systems to effectively respond to pandemics. These are transnational challenges that demand coordinated global efforts. At the core of this book is a audacious proposal to develop a comprehensive global pandemic playbook that can be swiftly implemented whenever the next pandemic arises. Countries and their experts must work together to establish early warning systems, preparedness, prevention, response, and containment measures. However, the question of who should bear the financial burden arises. Anne Kabagambe, a former Executive Board director for the World Bank Group, delves into the various options and makes a compelling case that neglecting to learn from COVID-19 and failing to establish a global playbook now would result in significantly higher costs when the next pandemic strikes.

Weight: 106g
Dimension: 141 x 215 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789047592