A roadmap to equity in pandemic preparedness, prevention and response.

Humans; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19/prevention & control; COVID-19/epidemiology; Global Health; Health Equity; Pandemic Preparedness; Pandemics/prevention & control; COVID-19; Pandemics; Health Policy; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Disciplines :

European & international law

Author, co-author :

Walckiers, Pierre ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de droit > EcoLAWgy ; Law Faculty, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Frison, Christine ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de droit > EcoLAWgy ; European Research Council - Starting Grant DecoLawBiodiv project n°101117449 ; Law Faculty, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Aubry, Sylvain ; Federal Office for Agriculture, Bern, Switzerland ; Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Language :

English

Title :

A roadmap to equity in pandemic preparedness, prevention and response.

Publication date :

23 August 2024

Journal title :

Journal of Global Health

ISSN :

2047-2978

eISSN :

2047-2986

Publisher :

University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Volume :

Issue :

03031

Pages :

1-9

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Additional URL :

https://jogh.org/2024/jogh-14-03031

European Projects :

HE - 101117449 - DecoLawBiodiv - Decolonizing International Biodiversity Law : Digital Sequence Information as a revealer

Funders :

F.R.S.-FNRS - Fund for Scientific Research
European Union

Funding number :

40011887

Funding text :

Funding: Christine Frison is supported by the ERC Starting Grant number 101117449 \u2013 DecoLawBiodiv project and Pierre Walckiers under the Belgian National Funds for Scientific Research (F.R.S-FNRS) grant number 40011887 (ASP-FNRS).

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