
“One hundred years later, we are globally still underprepared”
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health News, October 3, 2018 –By Nilagia McKoy
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/preparing-for-future-pandemics-by-learning-from-the-past/
How Pandemics Have Shaped Infrastructure
Political and Cultural Contexts Matter
By Anders Gundersen, Research Assistant, HGHI
Public health infrastructure has been and continues to be influenced by the occurrence of epidemic/pandemic outbreaks, and the nature of our current public health system has been primarily shaped by past efforts in outbreak response.