Preparedness efforts for health threats: the gap between detection and action

9 February 2023

UCL Warning Research Centre's Head of Health Warnings R&I Claudia Fernandez de Cordoba Farini recently published an article for the National Preparedness Commission, looking at the gap between detection and action concerning preparedness efforts for health threats.

A large conference all; a stage is visible in the background with rows of chairs and people in the foreground facing the stage.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) was highly criticised for its delay in declaring Covid-19 as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) via social media and a public investigation, (see the final report of the Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response). But would earlier detection have necessarily resulted in an earlier and/or better response?

Read the full piece here: https://nationalpreparednesscommission.uk/2023/01/preparedness-efforts-for-health-threats-the-gap-between-detection-and-action/

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UCL Warning Research Centre

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A view of the third Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference, held in Bali in May 2022. Credit: Claudia Fernandez de Cordoba Farini.