scholarly journals Lessons Learnt From the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils Chr. Stenseth ◽  
Guha Dharmarajan ◽  
Ruiyun Li ◽  
Zheng-Li Shi ◽  
Ruifu Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Public Health Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Temporal Spread

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has been characterized by unprecedented rates of spatio-temporal spread. Here, we summarize the main events in the pandemic's timeline and evaluate what has been learnt by the public health community. We also discuss the implications for future public health policy and, specifically, the practice of epidemic control. We critically analyze this ongoing pandemic's timeline and contrast it with the 2002–2003 SARS outbreak. We identify specific areas (e.g., pathogen identification and initial reporting) wherein the international community learnt valuable lessons from the SARS outbreak. However, we also identify the key areas where international public health policy failed leading to the exponential spread of the pandemic. We outline a clear agenda for improved pandemic control in the future.

scholarly journals World-beating? Testing Britain's Covid response and tracing the explanation

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Calum Paton
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
British Politics ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
Toxic Approach ◽  
Poor Outcomes ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Uk

Abstract The UK, and England in particular, has suffered egregiously poor outcomes in managing the Covid-19 pandemic. This short perspective points to the explanation in terms of both current British politics and the public health policy inheritance. Boris Johnson's Premiership was born in an opportunistic assertion of British exceptionalism, and Johnson's initial, fate-tempting reaction to the novel Coronavirus set the UK on the wrong path. Furthermore, the gradual erosion of professionalism in (especially health) policy-making over almost four decades, and the hollowing-out of the health protection infrastructure, both facilitated and accentuated a toxic approach to managing Covid-19.

scholarly journals The Public Health Responsibility Deal: how should such a complex public health policy be assessed?

The Lancet ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 380 ◽  
pp. S11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Petticrew ◽  
Elizabeth Eastmure ◽  
Nicholas Mays ◽  
Cecile Knai ◽  
Anna Bryden
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Responsibility

Curating the Evidence About COVID-19 for Frontline Public Health and Clinical Care: The Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium

2021 ◽  
pp. 003335492110587
Author(s):  
Andrew D. Redd ◽  
Lauren S. Peetluk ◽  
Brooke A. Jarrett ◽  
Colleen Hanrahan ◽  
Sheree Schwartz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Successful Model ◽  
Medical Response ◽  
Public Consumption ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

The public health crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred a deluge of scientific research aimed at informing the public health and medical response to the pandemic. However, early in the pandemic, those working in frontline public health and clinical care had insufficient time to parse the rapidly evolving evidence and use it for decision-making. Academics in public health and medicine were well-placed to translate the evidence for use by frontline clinicians and public health practitioners. The Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium (NCRC), a group of >60 faculty and trainees across the United States, formed in March 2020 with the goal to quickly triage and review the large volume of preprints and peer-reviewed publications on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 and summarize the most important, novel evidence to inform pandemic response. From April 6 through December 31, 2020, NCRC teams screened 54 192 peer-reviewed articles and preprints, of which 527 were selected for review and uploaded to the NCRC website for public consumption. Most articles were peer-reviewed publications (n = 395, 75.0%), published in 102 journals; 25.1% (n = 132) of articles reviewed were preprints. The NCRC is a successful model of how academics translate scientific knowledge for practitioners and help build capacity for this work among students. This approach could be used for health problems beyond COVID-19, but the effort is resource intensive and may not be sustainable in the long term.

scholarly journals Lessons earned and lessons learned: What should be done next to counter the COVID-19 infodemic?

European View ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-163
Author(s):  
Nad’a Kovalčíková ◽  
Ariane Tabatabai
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
The World ◽  
Information Manipulation ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

As governments and citizens around the world have struggled with the novel coronavirus, the information space has turned into a battleground. Authoritarian countries, including Russia, China and Iran, have spread disinformation on the causes of and responses to the pandemic. The over-abundance of information, also referred to as an ‘infodemic’, including manipulated information, has been both a cause and a result of the exacerbation of the public health crisis. It is further undermining trust in democratic institutions, the independent press, and facts and data, and exacerbating the rising tensions driven by economic, political and societal challenges. This article discusses the challenges democracies have faced and the measures they have adopted to counter information manipulation that impedes public health efforts. It draws seven lessons learned from the information war and offers a set of recommendations on tackling future infodemics related to public health.

The Role of the Public Health Community in Detecting and Responding to Domestic Terrorism Involving Infectious Agents

2014 ◽  
pp. 219-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. LeDuc ◽  
Stephen M. Ostroff ◽  
Joseph E. McDade ◽  
Scott Lillibridge ◽  
James M. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Domestic Terrorism ◽  
Infectious Agents ◽  
Public Health Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Community
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