Strengthening national health systems’ capacity to respond to future global pandemics

Effective pandemic governance is more important now than ever, especially given that pandemic risk factors like urbanization, hypermobility, trans-border trade, rapid population growth and changes to the environment and food systems have all increased in tandem with the demands of globalization (Lee and Fidler 2007). These transformative global shifts have fundamentally changed the way pathogens are spread around the world and thus challenged …