Investing in global health security: Estimating cost requirements for country-level capacity building.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted critical gaps in global capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious diseases. To effectively allocate investments that address these gaps, it is first necessary to quantify the extent of the need, evaluate the types of resources and activities that require additional support, and engage the global community in ongoing assessment, planning, and implementation. Which investments are needed, where, to strengthen health security? This work aims to estimate costs to strengthen country-level health security, globally and identify associated cost drivers. The cost of building public health capacity is estimated based on investments needed, per country, to progress towards the benchmarks identified by the World Health Organization's Joint External E

SUBMITTER: Eaneff S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021513 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature