The emergence of the novel Coronavirus in 2019 represented one of the most significant challenges to global public health in the past century. Many health experts and scholars postulate that better systems of global health oversight and management could’ve rapidly decreased the extent to which the virus spread and became a global
issue. Review the content provided below before moving onto the questions and prompts associated with this case.
- “The Novel Coronavirus Originating in Wuhan China: Challenges for Global Health Governance”
- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2760500%C2%A0
- (Phelan et al., 2020)
- Examining the Coronavirus Outbreak: China, Markets, and Global Health Governance
- https://youtu.be/y4NSbtKDuXQ
First, in a one-page APA response, address the following questions:
- To what extent were global health care systems prepared to address the COVID-19 pandemic?
- What did the coronavirus outbreak reveal about the current systems of global health governance (i.e. were any strengths, weaknesses, issues, or concerns exposed)?
- Are there any additional steps, precautions, or measures that could’ve been taken to better address this outbreak from its earliest stages?
Next, imagine it is December 2018 (exactly one year before the COVID-19 outbreak), and you are working on a committee that has been tasked with building a better system of global health governance to address any future global public health challenges. In a one-page response, please address the following prompts:
- Describe your new system of governance: What does it look like? Who are the key stakeholders?
- Who should be primarily responsible for funding this endeavor, and who will be tasked with managing it?
- What are the greatest challenges you anticipate in developing or implementing this new system of oversight and management?
- Based on your recommendations, describe how your new and improved global governance system would’ve responded to the novel coronavirus outbreak.