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Book SynopsisThe last five years saw a significant return of epidemic infectious disease, culminating in COVID-19. In our new postCOVID-19 world, how do we prevent future illnesses by expanding scientific and vaccine diplomacy and cooperation, especially to combat the problems that humans have brought on ourselves?Modern diseases and viruses have been spurred anew by war and conflict as well as shifting poverty, urbanization, climate change, and a new troubling anti-science/anti-vaccination outlook. From such twenty-first-century forces, we have seen declines in previous global health gains, with sharp increases in vaccine-preventable and neglected diseases on the Arabian Peninsula, in Venezuela, in parts of Africa, and even on the Gulf Coast of the United States. In Preventing the Next Pandemic, international vaccine scientist and tropical disease and coronavirus expert Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, argues that we canand mustrely on vaccine diplomacy to address this new world order in disease and globa
Trade Review[
Preventing the Next Pandemic] takes the reader through the worlds of global health, diseases of the impoverished, and their diverse country contexts, into science diplomacy and a towards a vision for a healthier future.
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The LancetPreventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science is a bold call to promote vaccine diplomacy to prevent diseases and to promote peace and cooperation among countries.
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The Wire Science[
Preventing the Next Pandemic is] an authoritative and convincing overview of how current global conditions are driving the emergence and reappearance of infectious diseases.
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British Society for the History of MedicineHotez is perhaps uniquely positioned to expound a broad vision that marries science with geopolitics . . . he passionately insists that we cannot prevent pandemics in isolation from wider global currents.
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The New YorkerAn important read!
—Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC's
Morning JoeWith so many factors causing infectious and tropical diseases to emerge or return,
Preventing The Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science by
Dr Peter J. Hotez is a fascinating and timely read about the importance of vaccine diplomacy to address these urgent challenges.
—Elinore Court,
Gavi, The Vaccine AllianceTable of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1. A New Post-2015 Urgency
Chapter 2. A Cold War Legacy
Chapter 3. Vaccine Science Envoy
Chapter 4. Battling Diseases of the Anthropocene
Chapter 5. The Middle East Killing Fields
Chapter 6. Africa's "Un-Wars"
Chapter 7. The Northern Triangle and Collapse of Venezuela
Chapter 8. Sorting It Out: Attributable Risks
Chapter 9. Global Health Security and the Rise in Anti-science
Chapter 10. Implementing Vaccine Diplomacy and the Rise of COVID-19
Chapter 11. The Broken Obelisk
Literature Cited
About the Author
Index
