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No food security, no world order
While food insecurity and malnutrition remain significant challenges,
over the last two decades,
the global hunger rate decreased 25%.1 Much
of that decline is attributed to decreases in poverty. In the last 30 years, ...
The world after COVID : a perspective from history
A mong the brilliant and flamboyant costumes they wear during Carnival in
Venice, a sombre figure also stalks. It wears a white mask with dark spectacles and a long curving beak along with a black hat and gown. The “plague ...
Origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the path forward a global public health policy perspective
Although the world has experienced pandemics before, including several in
the last fifteen years,1
the COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented
global public health crisis. The synergy among multiple factors—including ...
Future scenarios : “we are all failed states, now”
As I write this, the constitutional environment of the United States is experiencing its greatest stresses since the American Civil War. A viral pandemic has engulfed the world and especially stricken the United States; ...
COVID-19 and world order
The coronavirus crisis was a shock, but should not have been a surprise. Public
health experts had been warning about the dangers of viral pandemics for
years. SARS, H1N1, Ebola, and MERS had highlighted the risks of ...
Epidemias bioethics in a post-covid world : time for future-facing global health ethics
The global COVID-19 pandemic posed a multitude of ethics challenges as the
realities of the public health emergency became apparent. Issues confronted
ranged from the allocation of scarce medical resources to questions ...
Make pandemics lose their power
COVID-19 has had the power to do what few other international shocks could
have done. It has sickened millions around the world in a matter of months,
killed hundreds of thousands, and created a global economic crisis ...
Global climate and energy policy after the COVID-19 pandemic : the tug-of-war between markets and politics
Before the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, international climate diplomacy had
settled into a regular yet disturbing routine. Every year, governments gathered to negotiate their climate commitments. Progress was haphazard and ...