Toward a Common Secure Future: Four Global Commissions in the Wake of Ebola

Gostin, Lawrence O.; Tomori, Oyewale; Wibulpolprasert, Suwit; Jha, Ashish K.; Frenk, Julio; Moon, Suerie; Phumaphi, Joy; Piot, Peter; Stocking, Barbara; Dzau, Victor J.; Leung, Gabriel M.

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002042

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“…Recent years have seen at least six large-scale outbreaks-hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, severe acute respiratory syndrome, H5N1 influenza, H1N1 influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome, and Ebola virus disease epidemic (Gostin et al, 2016). The influenza H1N1 2009 virus (A/2009/H1N1) was the first pandemic influenza of the 21st century.…”

Section: The Pandemic Through Historymentioning

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The Pandemic and its Impacts

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Mao

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The Pandemic has a long history, but the term itself is yet to be defined by many medical texts. There have been a number of significant pandemics recorded in human history where pandemic related crises have caused enormous negative impacts on health, economies, and even national security globally. This article will explore the literature for the concept and history of pandemics, providing a summary of key features with consequent discussion on the negative impacts on health, economy, social and global security yielded by pandemics and disease outbreaks.

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Section: The Pandemic Through Historymentioning

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The Pandemic and its Impacts

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Mao

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“…According to various expert panels convened to discuss the future of global health after the Ebola epidemic, robust health care systems are assumed to be better prepared for possible outbreaks and thus contribute to a more secure future (Gostin et al 2016). By implication, this is expected to enhance people's trust in biomedical measures, hospitals, and health workers, all frequently articulated objectives of the post-Ebola reconstruction of health care systems in West Africa (see, for example, Dhillon and Kelly 2015).…”

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‘They overworked us’

Park¹

2017

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In this article, I describe the institutional humiliation experienced by volunteer nurses in Sierra Leone following the end of the Ebola epidemic. They had been promised formal employment with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation after working in the Ebola treatment units in the country, but were dismissed from the hospitals where they were volunteering and felt humiliated. I suggest that this maltreatment of volunteer nurses cannot be grasped through the existing categories and parameters used by global health policies nor through conventional moral theories that inform our understandings of global health. Instead, we need to attend to the harm inflicted upon the volunteer nurses' sense of self-respect through institutionalized forms of subordination and misrecognition. Drawing on philosophical and anthropological works on recognition, I argue that we should pay attention to moral emotions as distinct objects of study to grasp how those who are humiliated register and validate the maltreatment they have undergone.

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“…10 Now is that time, both because of the urgency of the DRC epidemic and to set a precedent, leading the way for future complex health emergencies.…”

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Fighting Novel Diseases amidst Humanitarian Crises

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Sircar²,

Friedman³

2019

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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is facing two crises: a potentially explosive Ebola epidemic and a major insurgency. The first crisis is intertwined with the second, while public mistrust and political violence add a dangerous new dimension. The World Health Organization (WHO) and other health emergency responders will increasingly find themselves fighting outbreaks in insecure, misgoverned (or ungoverned) zones, possibly experiencing active conflict. Yet, WHO has neither the mission nor the capabilities to navigate these security threats. We cannot expect that the usual public health strategy will succeed when health workers’ lives are directly imperiled, and community resistance runs deep. Tackling health emergencies amidst complex humanitarian crises requires fresh thinking.

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Toward a Common Secure Future: Four Global Commissions in the Wake of Ebola

Abstract: Lawrence Gostin and colleagues offer a set of priorities for global health preparedness and response for future infectious disease threats.

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The Pandemic and its Impacts

The Pandemic and its Impacts

‘They overworked us’

Fighting Novel Diseases amidst Humanitarian Crises

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