Catalysing Change: A Global Health Approach in the Wake of Pandemics
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Date
2024
Authors
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) , German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , Académie Nationale des Sciences et Techniques du Sénégal (ANSTS) , Ethiopian Academy of Sciences (EAS)Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Académie Nationale des Sciences et Techniques du Sénégal (ANSTS) and Ethiopian Academy of Sciences (EAS)
Sponsorship
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
Abstract
Over the past four years, the COVID-19 pandemic has drastically disrupted daily life, severely stressed health systems across the globe and exposed stark inequalities in managing global health crises. It has revealed significant shortcomings in disease surveillance and data sharing and highlighted the urgent need to strengthen global health research. The strategy of intensive containment of the COVID-19 pandemic often came at the expense of managing other infectious diseases, such as Tuberculosis and HIV, leading to uneven and nationally focused solutions.
The need to develop a more equitable and unified strategy for global health, particularly in preparing for and responding to future pandemics has become apparent. The webinar on “Catalysing Change: A Global Health Approach in the Wake of Pandemics”, brought together experts from national and international health bodies, the political arena, and the pharmaceutical industry to address the pressing issues of global health politics and pandemic prevention. The webinar focused on ensuring equitable access to medications and vaccines, fostering global health research, and improving surveillance and data-sharing mechanisms. It takes on the conference brief “Global Health Approach for Infectious Diseases – A Proposal for the Next Decade”, a joint publication by the national academies of Ethiopia, Germany, Senegal, and South Africa, which resulted from the workshop “Infectious Diseases beyond COVID-19” in Berlin on 23 and 24 May 2023.
Description
MP4 video, Size: 1.01 GB (1 090 485 966 bytes); Duration: 01:05:28
Contributor ORCIDs
Kaufmann, Stefan
; Abdool Karim, Quarraisha ; Hanefeld, Johanna ; Puren, Adrian DOI
Citation
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), (2024). Catalysing Change: A Global Health Approach in the Wake of Pandemics [Online] Available at: https://youtu.be/dwGp7Bwoky4.
Peer review status
Non-Peer Reviewed