The COVID 19 Pandemic and Global Health Diplomacy: Critical lessons we need to learn

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Health Diplomacy: Critical lessons we need to learn Dr. Dennis Carroll Distinguished Professor, School of Global Health Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University May 3, 2020

Four Lessons and One Key Action 1. COVID-19 is not a “Black Swan” event

2. A threat anywhere is a threat everywhere 3. Well coordinated global action is essential to address a global threat 4. The COVID-19 global response has been a failure ACTION

Forging an “active” partnership of global, regional, national and local partners is key to preventing the next pandemic. This requires global health diplomacy.

Four Lessons and One Key Action 1. COVID-19 is not a “Black Swan” event 2. Every future “threat” already exists in nature – we just haven’t ID them yet 3. The threat of future emergence closely linked to “hot spots” 4. Knowing “hot spots” allows for targeted surveillance , prevention and early response To make sure we never have a COVID-19 like event again, we need: An “active” global early warning surveillance network that integrates surveillance across the ”ecology of disease emergence”: in hot spots viral discovery interface surveillance active human surveillance

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