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This report marks the first of what is expected to be a series of assessments of various global health problems, and this first effort begins with the conceptualization of health as a global issue. It explores the relationship between health and economic growth, trade, innovation, global security and global governance. It focuses in particular on infectious diseases as a significant global health challenge, and looks to the origin, causes, and effectiveness of various interventions employed for different epidemics. In evaluating the global response to pandemics, it looks at each in terms of the viability and effectiveness of regional and cross-border collaboration to deploy health care systems, surveillance, lab testing, communication, and human resources and equipment.

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Julio Frenk is a Mexican physician and former Secretary of Health of Mexico. Dr. Frenk is currently the president of the University of Miami. Dr. Frenk served as Dean of the Faculty and T & G Angelopoulos Professor of Public Health and International Development at the Harvard School of Public Health from 2009–15. Louise O. Fresco is president of the Executive Board of Wageningen University & Research Centre. She was University Professor at the University of Amsterdam in the eld of the foundations of sustainable development from June 2006 until July 2014 and also served as Assistant Director-General of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Phua Kai Hong is a tenured professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, where he lectures in global health and social policy. Dr. Phua was the co-lead author and corresponding author of the overview article in the Lancet series on Health in Southeast Asia (2011). Pablo Kuri-Morales serves as Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion at the Ministry of Health for the Federal Government of Mexico. He served as Director General of the National Center for Epidemiological Surveillance and Disease Control as well as the Epidemiology Department at the Federal Health Ministry. Since 1986 has been teaching at the University of Mexico’s Medical School.

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