Face New Challenges

The United Nations on Environment and Development, Agenda 21, devotes Chapter 6 to “Protecting and Promoting Human Health”. The Agenda recognizes that health and development are intimately interconnected, and call that action items under Agenda 21 must address the primary health needs of the world's population, since they are integral to the achievement of the goals of sustainable development and primary environmental care

As part of the numerous challenges developed into “the 2030 Agenda for sustainable Development

“By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and […] other communicable diseases.”
“Achieve universal health coverage, including […] access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.”
“Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries.”
“Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks”

Adopt the Strategy

Facing an unprecedented pandemic, governments are at a crossroad where they need to completely rethink their public health strategies in a highly evolutive and complex context, learning from the past and anticipating the future, in order to protect populations and save their economies.

Their focus includes:

Boosting research and clinical development to better protect population
Improving cooperation at all levels: public/private partnerships, transnational, national/local or cross “institutional silos”.
Securing and fully exploiting the available data to understand real-time the evolution of complex situation, anticipate possible to-be scenarios and take relevant decisions
Monitoring finely the impacts of the taken decisions and implemented policies as well as the public funds usage
Mastering the crisis logistics and critical goods supply chains
Developing critical health infrastructures in a timely manner
Securing the public areas from airborne contamination so the economic, cultural and educative life can resume
Communicating science-based and understandable information to the population