Covid Collective Key Issue Guide: Pandemic Preparedness

Abstract

It is likely the next pandemic will come within a decade, so preparedness is of vital importance. Much has been learned from the Covid-19 pandemic and from this the world can limit pandemic risks and learn to respond much more effectively. This will require ‘whole of government’ and ‘whole of society’ approaches (Ortenzi et al. 2022) (not only those of health authorities and medical scientists) which consider the intersecting precarities that affect people’s lives (MacGregor et al. 2022).