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open
Global / Unspecified, Global
Deforestation, wildlife trade, and dense urbanisation increase contact between humans and animal reservoirs, enabling novel pathogens to emerge. Planetary-health surveillance systems and adaptable vaccine platforms will be essential.
health-biology
global-unspecified
deforestation
future
pandemics
driven
zoonotic
spillover
likely
become
frequent
wildlife
systems
society-governance
surveillance
detecting
rapid
without
open
Global / Unspecified, Global
Deforestation, wildlife trade, and dense urbanisation increase contact between humans and animal reservoirs, enabling novel pathogens to emerge. Planetary-health surveillance systems and adaptable vaccine platforms will be essential.
health-biology
global-unspecified
deforestation
future
pandemics
driven
zoonotic
spillover
likely
become
frequent
variant
focuses
society-governance
systems
data
technology-computing
infrastructure
open
Global / Unspecified, Global
Pandemics and conflicts expose import dependency. Strategic local manufacturing and stockpiling can strengthen resilience.
health-biology
global-unspecified
supply-chain
local
supply
chains
critical
goods
fragile
pandemics
conflicts
expose
import
economics-resources
mathematics-logic
actors
parts
might
open
Global / Unspecified, Global
The UN handles war and peace, the WTO handles trade, and the WHO handles pandemics, but none of them were built with today's cross-cutting crises in mind. This leaves gaps where no institution has a clear mandate at all.
health-biology
global-unspecified
built
war
were
pandemics
handles
institutions
world
not
designed
society-governance
public
governance
designing
creating
building
democratic
open
Global / Unspecified, Global
Slow, uneven international coordination has repeatedly allowed outbreaks to spread further than they might have with faster joint action. A better-prepared global response system remains incomplete despite repeated warnings.
health-biology
global-unspecified
system
response
spread
yet
build
quickly
coordinate
pandemics
widely
whether
philosophy-ethics
mathematics-logic
resolved
determine
have
don
Achieving protocols for equitable and rapid distribution of medical countermeasures in pandemics at meaningful scale demands simultaneous progress in fundamental research, engineering integration and socio-technical systems that work for low- and middle-income settings. Existing efforts remain fragmented relative to the magnitude of the challenge.
health-biology
africa
egypt
protocols
equitable
rapid
distribution
medical
countermeasures
pandemics
systemic
solutions
addressing
economics-resources
climate-environment
systems
society-governance
methods
