Toward a Common Secure Future: Four Global Commissions in the Wake of Ebola

Lawrence O Gostin; Oyewale Tomori; Suwit Wibulpolprasert; Ashish K Jha; Julio Frenk; Suerie Moon; Joy Phumaphi; Peter Piot; Barbara Stocking; Victor J Dzau; Gabriel M Leung

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002042

Toward a Common Secure Future: Four Global Commissions in the Wake of Ebola

PLoS Med. 2016 May 19;13(5):e1002042. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002042. eCollection 2016 May.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America.
² Nigeria Academy of Sciences, Lagos, Nigeria.
³ Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand.
⁴ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁵ University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America.
⁶ Harvard Global Health Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
⁷ African Leaders Malaria Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America.
⁸ London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
⁹ Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
¹⁰ National Academy of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America.
¹¹ Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Abstract

Lawrence Gostin and colleagues offer a set of priorities for global health preparedness and response for future infectious disease threats.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Global Health*
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / prevention & control*
International Cooperation*
National Health Programs*
Public Health*
Research

Grants and funding

No specific funding was received for this work. SW was provided with travel and accommodation by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). LG and GL were provided with travel and accommodation by the NAM-led commission (Global Health Risk Framework) and by the UN (to advise on technical aspects of the UN High Level Panel report). Travel expenses were paid by the Harvard/LSHTM organizers for the following authors: LOG, AKJ, SM, PP, and GML.