Understanding pandemic risks: the WHO Pandemic Hub

In the pandemic, “we watched our leaders, whether they were prime ministers or mayors of cities, struggle to make decisions because the data needed wasn't as accessible and usable as they would have liked”, recalls Chikwe Ihekweazu, WHO Assistant Director-General for the Division of Health Emer...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2024-08, Vol.404 (10451), p.420-421
Main Author: Samarasekera, Udani
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Civil society
Collaboration
Cooperation
COVID-19 - epidemiology
COVID-19 - prevention & control
Decision making
Emergency response
Epidemics
Funding
Humans
Leadership
Merkel, Angela
Meteorological data
Mpox
Pandemics
Pathogens
Political leadership
Public health
Risk Assessment
SARS-CoV-2
Surveillance systems
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
World Health Organization
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Summary:In the pandemic, “we watched our leaders, whether they were prime ministers or mayors of cities, struggle to make decisions because the data needed wasn't as accessible and usable as they would have liked”, recalls Chikwe Ihekweazu, WHO Assistant Director-General for the Division of Health Emergency Intelligence and Surveillance Systems. [...]how do we get better at connecting weather data, travel data, disease data, population data, in order to both assess the risk and vulnerability of people to new incidents?”, asks Ihekweazu. “Disparities in health infrastructure and resources between countries hinder effective data sharing and response efforts—political leadership is needed to bridge these gaps both for the Hub and pandemic prevention more broadly”, she says. “The World Bank's Pandemic Fund is under-resourced and lacks credibility in many lower-income countries”, Gostin notes.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01591-5