Preventing the Next Pandemic - Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science

The last five years saw a significant return of epidemic infectious disease, culminating in COVID-19. In our new post-COVID-19 world, how do we prevent future illnesses by expanding scientific and vaccine diplomacy and cooperation, especially to combat the problems that humans have brought on ourselves?

List of contents

Preface
Chapter 1. A New Post-2015 Urgency
Chapter 2. A Cold War Legacy
Chapter 3. Vaccine Science Envoy
Chapter 4. Battling Diseases of the Anthropocene
Chapter 5. The Middle East Killing Fields
Chapter 6. Africa's "Un-Wars"
Chapter 7. The Northern Triangle and Collapse of Venezuela
Chapter 8. Sorting It Out: Attributable Risks
Chapter 9. Global Health Security and the Rise in Anti-science
Chapter 10. Implementing Vaccine Diplomacy and the Rise of COVID-19
Chapter 11. The Broken Obelisk
Literature Cited
About the Author
Index

About the author

Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, is a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology and the founding dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, where he is also the codirector of the Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development. He is the author of Blue Marble Health: An Innovative Plan to Fight Diseases of the Poor amid Wealth and Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel's Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad.

Product details

• Authors: Peter J Hotez, Peter J. Hotez, Peter J. (Dean for the National School of T Hotez, Peter J. (Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine Hotez
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781421440385
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4038-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Pharmacy; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education