27/12/2021
Global Health Security
Lawrence O. Gostin Harvard Univ. Press (2021)
“No one is safe from infectious diseases unless everyone is safe,” says World Health Organization adviser Lawrence Gostin. Discouraged but inspired by COVID‑19, his wide-ranging study analyses the science and politics of past and present global disease, with hypothetical exercises about a new influenza, bioterrorism and cholera. He recommends steps to reduce pandemic risk, such as increasing surveillance of animal pathogens and their movement. Above all, he calls for a “new politics”, free from nationalistic populism.