(task) Global Health Security: The Wider Lessons from the West African Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic

GRS, USRS, All Africa RSs

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Ebola, Health Security

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> From: Rob Ewers <globalhealth@email-chathamhouse.org>
> To: "michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com" <michael.d.mcdonald@mac.com>
> Subject: Global Health Security: The Wider Lessons from the West African Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic
> Date: May 7, 2015 at 1:09:09 PM EDT
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> Dear Colleague,
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> Prof. David L. Heymann, Head and Senior Fellow of the Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security, has brought together a diverse group of experts to reflect on the broad meaning of global health security in the context of the West African Ebola outbreak, in a public policy paper published in The Lancet.
> Global health security: the wider lessons from the West African Ebola virus disease epidemic <http://email-chathamhouse.org/1TYE-3DIH1-BM8UQB-1L7M2J-1/c.aspx>
> By David L. Heymann et al.
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> Adapted from the article:
> The Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa was unprecedented in both its scale and impact. Out of this human calamity has come renewed attention to global health security—its definition, meaning, and the practical implications for programmes and policy. For example, how does a government begin to strengthen its core public health capacities, as demanded by the International Health Regulations? What counts as a global health security concern? In the context of the governance of global health, including World Health Organization reform, it will be important to distil lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak.
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> Prof. Heymann led a group of respected global health practitioners to reflect on these lessons, to explore the idea of global health security, and to offer suggestions for the next steps. The paper describes some of the major threats to individual and collective human health, as well as the values and recommendations that should be considered to counteract such threats in the future. Many different perspectives are proposed but their common goal is a more sustainable and resilient society for human health and wellbeing.
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> Read the article in the Lancet > <http://email-chathamhouse.org/1TYE-3DIH1-BM8UQB-1L7M2J-1/c.aspx>
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> Kind Regards,
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> Rob Ewers,
> Programme Coordinator, Centre on Global Health Security
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