Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond

Global Health Security to Prevent Future Pandemics: One Health, Surveillance, and Communication Technologies explores the history of public health surveillance, current governance, and legal structures. The book explores global public health and the challenges in preventing, detecting, and responding to emerging threats. The book describes a vision for the future of global public health and aims to chart the way forward with the understanding that epidemics are expected, but pandemics are preventable. Major topics are examined from a public health surveillance perspective include global health security; epidemic/pandemic prevention, detection, and response; One Health and zoonosis; virus outbreaks of Ebola, Zika, MERS-CoV, and COVID-19; man-made public health threats and environmental health; issues around viral sovereignty; and health information and communication technology. Preventing Future Pandemics provides the context for researchers, practitioners, and graduate-level students in public health better to understand what was, what is, and what could be for global health security. Highlights emerging threats to public health (e.g., disease, climate change, antibiotic resistance, PFAS) Discusses new approaches to global health security Leverages technological innovations to advance public health Includes practical examples and case studies from around the world