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Funding Pandemic Preparedness: A Global Public Good

by Hayley Stutzman, Angela E. Micah, Joseph L Dieleman

Pandemics in a globalized world require global responses. We must be better equipped and funded.

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George Washington is seen with a printed medical mask on the one-dollar bill near fifty-Euro banknotes in this illustration created during the coronavirus pandemic on March 31, 2020. The photo shows a bunch of paper money, dollars and euros, with a blue surgical-style mask on one of the bills. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic

Coronavirus in Europe: Who If Not Us?

by Ilona Kickbusch, Susan Bergner

Can the EU balance internal recovery with geopolitical influence and lift its gaze towards the international sphere?

A boiler stack at the Sugar Cane Growers cooperative in Belle Glade, Florida on January 6, 2010. The image shows a large smokestack belching out black billows and blocking the cloudy sky.
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COVID-19 Is Smoke and Mirrors—What Matters Is International Law

by Ilona Kickbusch

Health is political, and the best political choice at the moment would be to strengthen WHO's legal power—not destroy it