When the United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken laid out the Biden Administration’s diplomatic plans on March 3, the first item was to “stop COVID-19 and strengthen global health security.” Experts have long warned about pandemics, but countries often failed to make it a top priority.
While COVID-19 may change that, there needs to be an understanding that global health security is a bigger issue than any one pandemic, and too narrow a focus could lead to failure. Leaders may want to consider three additional items as they develop their strategies to prepare for such health threats: other diseases, social determinants of health, and logistics.
The full op-ed, published by Devex, can be accessed here.
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