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Deep Dive: Preventing Pandemics

Season 2 Episode 14 | 1h 27m 17s

Infectious diseases represent one of the greatest threats to global health and security

Infectious diseases represent one of the greatest threats to global health and security. The failures of the Ebola crisis demonstrated that we remain woefully unprepared, but they also served as a wake-up call at the highest levels of policymaking across nations. The twelve-country Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future has urgently recommended an international commitment.

06/23/2017

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The Aspen Institute produces the Aspen Ideas Festival in concert with its partner, The Atlantic.

Deep Dive: Preventing Pandemics

Season 2 Episode 14 | 1h 27m 17s

Infectious diseases represent one of the greatest threats to global health and security. The failures of the Ebola crisis demonstrated that we remain woefully unprepared, but they also served as a wake-up call at the highest levels of policymaking across nations. The twelve-country Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future has urgently recommended an international commitment.

06/23/2017

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