Global Challenges After a Global Challenge: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Niloufar Yazdanpanah; Constantine Sedikides; Hans D Ochs; Carlos A Camargo Jr; Gary L Darmstadt; Artemi Cerda; Valentina Cauda; Godefridus J Peters; Frank Sellke; Nathan D Wong; Elisabetta Comini; Alberto Ruiz Jimeno; Vivette Glover; Nikos Hatziargyriou; Christian E Vincenot; Stéphane P A Bordas; Idupulapati M Rao; Hassan Abolhassani; Gevork B Gharehpetian; Ralf Weiskirchen; Manoj Gupta; Shyam Singh Chandel; Bolajoko O Olusanya; Bruce Cheson; Alessio Pomponio; Michael Tanzer; Paul S Myles; Wen-Xiu Ma; Federico Bella; Saeid Ghavami; S Moein Moghimi; Domenico Pratico; Alfredo M Hernandez; Maria Martinez-Urbistondo; Diego Martinez Urbistondo; Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad; Imran Ali; Shinya Kimura; A Wallace Hayes; Wenju Cai; Chua K J Ernest; Sabu Thomas; Kazem Rahimi; Armin Sorooshian; Michael Schreiber; Koichi Kato; John H T Luong; Stefano Pluchino; Andres M Lozano; John F Seymour; Kenneth S Kosik; Stefan G Hofmann; Roger S McIntyre; Matjaz Perc; Alexander Leemans; Robyn S Klein; Shuji Ogino; Christopher Wlezien; George Perry; Juan J Nieto; Lisa Levin; Daniel J Klionsky; Bahram Mobasher; Tommaso Dorigo; Nima Rezaei; USERN Advisory Board

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-61939-7_1

Global Challenges After a Global Challenge: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Adv Exp Med Biol. 2024:1457:1-31. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-61939-7_1.

Authors

Niloufar Yazdanpanah^{1

2

3}, Constantine Sedikides^{1

4}, Hans D Ochs^{1

5}, Carlos A Camargo Jr^{1

6}, Gary L Darmstadt^{1

7}, Artemi Cerda^{1

8}, Valentina Cauda^{1

9}, Godefridus J Peters^{1

10

11}, Frank Sellke^{1

12

13}, Nathan D Wong^{1

14}, Elisabetta Comini^{1

15}, Alberto Ruiz Jimeno^{1

16}, Vivette Glover^{1

17}, Nikos Hatziargyriou^{1

18}, Christian E Vincenot^{1

19}, Stéphane P A Bordas^{1

19}, Idupulapati M Rao^{1

20

21}, Hassan Abolhassani^{1

3

22}, Gevork B Gharehpetian^{1

23}, Ralf Weiskirchen^{1

24}, Manoj Gupta^{1

25}, Shyam Singh Chandel^{1

26}, Bolajoko O Olusanya^{1

27}, Bruce Cheson^{1

28}, Alessio Pomponio^{1

29}, Michael Tanzer^{1

30}, Paul S Myles^{1

31}, Wen-Xiu Ma^{1

32

33

34}, Federico Bella^{1

9}, Saeid Ghavami^{1

35}, S Moein Moghimi^{1

36

37

38}, Domenico Pratico^{1

39}, Alfredo M Hernandez^{1

40}, Maria Martinez-Urbistondo^{1

41}, Diego Martinez Urbistondo^{1

42}, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad^{1

43

44}, Imran Ali^{1

45}, Shinya Kimura^{1

46}, A Wallace Hayes^{1

47

48}, Wenju Cai^{1

49}, Chua K J Ernest^{1

25}, Sabu Thomas^{1

50}, Kazem Rahimi^{1

51}, Armin Sorooshian^{1

52}, Michael Schreiber^{1

53}, Koichi Kato^{1

54}, John H T Luong^{1

55}, Stefano Pluchino^{1

56}, Andres M Lozano^{1

57

58}, John F Seymour^{1

59

60}, Kenneth S Kosik^{1

61}, Stefan G Hofmann^{1

62}, Roger S McIntyre^{1

63

64}, Matjaz Perc^{1

65

66

67

68

69}, Alexander Leemans^{1

70}, Robyn S Klein^{1

71

72}, Shuji Ogino^{1

73

74

75}, Christopher Wlezien^{1

76}, George Perry^{1

77}, Juan J Nieto^{1

78}, Lisa Levin^{1

79}, Daniel J Klionsky^{1

80

81}, Bahram Mobasher^{1

82}, Tommaso Dorigo^{1

83

84}, Nima Rezaei^{85

86

87}; USERN Advisory Board

Affiliations

¹ , Houston, USA.
² School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³ Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
⁴ School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Seattle Children's Research Institute, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷ Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁸ Soil Erosion and Degradation Research Group, Department of Geography, Valencia University, Blasco Ibàñez, Valencia, Spain.
⁹ Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, Turin, Italy.
¹⁰ Laboratory Medical Oncology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Location VUMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
¹¹ Department of Biochemistry, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland.
¹² Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
¹³ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA.
¹⁴ Heart Disease Prevention Program, Division of Cardiology, University of California Irvine, C-240 Medical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA.
¹⁵ SENSOR Laboratory, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
¹⁶ Instituto de Física de Cantabria (IFCA), CSIC-Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
¹⁷ Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London, London, UK.
¹⁸ School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece.
¹⁹ Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM), University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
²⁰ Alliance of Bioversity International, International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Colombia.
²¹ International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Nairobi, Kenya.
²² Division of Immunology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
²³ Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
²⁴ Institute of Molecular Pathobiochemistry, Experimental Gene Therapy and Clinical Chemistry (IFMPEGKC), RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
²⁵ Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
²⁶ Photovoltaics Research Group, Centre of Excellence in Energy Science and Technology, Shoolini University, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, 173212, India.
²⁷ Centre for Healthy Start Initiative, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria.
²⁸ Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Bethesda, MD, USA.
²⁹ Dipartimento di Meccanica, Matematica e Management, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy.
³⁰ Division of Orthopedic Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
³¹ Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
³² Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
³³ Department of Mathematics, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia.
³⁴ Material Science Innovation and Modelling, North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, Mmabatho, 2735, South Africa.
³⁵ Human Anatomy and Cell Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
³⁶ School of Pharmacy, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
³⁷ Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK.
³⁸ Colorado Center for Nanomedicine and Nanosafety, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, CO, USA.
³⁹ Alzheimer's Center at Temple, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴⁰ Medicine and Endocrinology Department, Universidad de Valladolid and IMDEA, Madrid, Spain.
⁴¹ Internal Medicine Department, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spain.
⁴² Hospital Universitario HM Sanchinarro, Madrid, Spain.
⁴³ Division of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁴⁴ Division of Clinical Geriatrics, NVS Department, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴⁵ Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi, India.
⁴⁶ Division of Hematology, Respiratory Medicine and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan.
⁴⁷ Center for Environmental/Occupational Risk Analysis and Management, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33612, USA.
⁴⁸ Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
⁴⁹ CSIRO Environment, Hobart, TAS, Australia.
⁵⁰ School of Energy Materials, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India.
⁵¹ Deep Medicine, Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵² Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
⁵³ Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 09107, Chemnitz, Germany.
⁵⁴ Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS) and Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan.
⁵⁵ School of Chemistry, University College Cork, Cork, T12 YN60, Ireland.
⁵⁶ Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁵⁷ Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁵⁸ Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁵⁹ Clinical Haematology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁶⁰ Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁶¹ Department of Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology, Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
⁶² Department of Psychology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
⁶³ Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁶⁴ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
⁶⁵ Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroška cesta 160, Maribor, Slovenia.
⁶⁶ Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, 404332, Taiwan.
⁶⁷ Alma Mater Europaea, Slovenska ulica 17, 2000, Maribor, Slovenia.
⁶⁸ Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Josefstädterstraße 39, 1080, Vienna, Austria.
⁶⁹ Department of Physics, Kyung Hee University, 26 Kyungheedae-ro, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
⁷⁰ Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
⁷¹ Center for Neuroimmunology and Neuroinfectious Diseases, St. Louis, MO, USA.
⁷² Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Immunology, and Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
⁷³ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷⁴ Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁷⁵ Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
⁷⁶ Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
⁷⁷ Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
⁷⁸ CITMAga, University of Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain.
⁷⁹ Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Integrative Oceanography Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
⁸⁰ Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁸¹ Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁸² Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA.
⁸³ Lulea University of Technology, Laboratorievagen 14, Lulea, Sweden.
⁸⁴ Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Via Francesco Marzolo, Sezione di Padova, Italy.
⁸⁵ , Houston, USA. [email protected].
⁸⁶ School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [email protected].
⁸⁷ Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [email protected].

PMID: 39283418
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-61939-7_1

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected not only individual lives but also the world and global systems, both natural and human-made. Besides millions of deaths and environmental challenges, the rapid spread of the infection and its very high socioeconomic impact have affected healthcare, economic status and wealth, and mental health across the globe. To better appreciate the pandemic's influence, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches are needed. In this chapter, world-leading scientists from different backgrounds share collectively their views about the pandemic's footprint and discuss challenges that face the international community.

Keywords: COVID-19; Complications; Economics; Environment; Infodemic; Long COVID-19; Mental health; Physiological; Post-pandemic; Scientific.

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / epidemiology
COVID-19* / prevention & control
COVID-19* / transmission
Global Health* / economics
Global Health* / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Pandemics* / economics
Pandemics* / prevention & control
Pandemics* / statistics & numerical data