Main description:

Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond explores the history of public health surveillance, current governance and legal structures. The book explores global public health and the challenges in preventing, detecting and responding to emerging threats. It describes a vision for the future of global public health, with an aim of charting a way forward that includes an understanding that epidemics are expected, but pandemics are preventable. Major topics covered include global health security, epidemic/pandemic prevention, detection and response, One Health and zoonosis, virus outbreaks of Ebola, Zika, MERS-CoV and COVID-19, manmade public health threats and environmental health, and more.

This book provides the context researchers, practitioners and graduate-level students need in public health to better understand what was, what is and what could be for global health security.

Contents:

I. Emerging Diseases in our Globalized World
II. Unifying the World Against Diseases
III. Safeguarding the World through Eradication
IV. Searching for an Integrated Approach
V. Facing the Challenge of Viral Sovereignty
VI. Setting a Strategic Agenda for Global Health Security
VII. Addressing Man-made Epidemics
VIII. Considering Ethics and Human Security
IX. Reforming in the Wake of Ebola, Zika, MERS, and COVID-19
X. Envisioning Smart Power for Global Health Security