GOVERNING PANDEMICS 101

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SESSION 1 THE GLOBAL CHALLENGE OF GOVERNING PANDEMICS

 

 

PROGRAMME

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• Introduction: How will this course work?

• Mini-lecture 1: What is the global health system (“architecture”) and what are the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for this system?

• Mini-lecture 2: What are the weaknesses exposed by Covid-19, and what reforms are on the agenda? (Rules, Financing, Organisational reform, Monitoring & Accountability)

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SPEAKER

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• Suerie Moon, Professor of Practice, The Graduate Institute, Geneva;
  Co-Director, Global Health Centre

 

READINGS

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• Frenk J, Moon S (2013) Governance Challenges in Global Health,
  The New England Journal of Medicine.

• Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness & Response (2021)
  Second Report on Progress, Report prepared for
  the WHO Executive Board.

 

Supplementary Reading:

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• Bezruki A, Moon S (2021) Post-covid reforms: Can we avoid
  fighting the last war? The BMJ.