MEDICAL SCIENCES
Predicting and Preventing the Next Pandemics COVID-19 has revealed at least ten major global health problems. As painfully demonstrated during the pandemic, the devolving health threats endanger lives, disrupt families and societies, and wreck havoc on economies. A strategic path is set forth within a coordinated global framework for predicting and preventing the next pandemics. Alain L Fymat, International Institute of Medicine & Science
Problems with global health
While a full analysis of each such problem would require separate presentations, here is a brief overview: 1. An unruly world of nearly eight billion people (and growing) who are not easily managed. 2. Glaring inequities among nations, particularly poor or less-developed ones, with insufficient or/and inadequate health infrastructures that precluded the local productions of medicines and vaccines. 3. A plethora of international organisations forming a complex and fragmented legal and institutional landscape. They continued to focus on their limited individual agendas, do not operate cooperatively or in synchrony, do not coordinate their respective programs, and have no enforcement power over individual nations. 4. Notwithstanding its otherwise great work, during COVID-19, the WHO was dilatory in
not heeding the early signs of the coming pandemic and took three or more critical months to declare a pandemic. 5. National decisions continue to be most often politically driven, international commitments are barely honoured, and no international consequences are levied for non-compliance. 6. There is an almost universal short memory regarding the past history of epidemics and pandemics.
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