Global Health Security In The Age Of Pandemics And Climate Change

Global Health Security In The Age Of Pandemics And Climate Change

Director general of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks to the press in ... [+] Kuwait City, Kuwait on July 28, 2021. Economic leaders from around the world came together in 1944 at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to make choices about how to rebuild a global economy destroyed by war in a way that avoided the vulnerabilities that contributed to the war's start. The timing mattered. When World War II ended the following year, individual nations, and new multilateral institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were prepared to restart growth, promote private investment, and avert crises. Their initiatives, including the U. S. Marshall Plan that financed European rebuilding, set in motion decades of growth that made people richer, less hungry, and healthier. Today's leaders face a choice between a future stabilized by progress, and one made fragile by worsening inequality. But humanity can leverage crises moments for transformative change. We have seen it before when the modern field of public health helped fight 1918 flu pandemic, eradicate hookworm in the U. S., and seeded the development of the yellow fever vaccine. Past crises indicate that when an outbreak is under control, other pressing concerns take away the