Summary of Managing the Risk and Impact of Future Epidemics

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Managing the Risk and Impact of Future Epidemics summary

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The World Economic Forum outlines how public-private partnerships helped stem the 2013 Ebola crisis in West Africa, as well as the opportunities they missed for greater collaboration. It applies the lessons learned from these successes and failures as the basis for new models for enhanced future collaboration. getAbstract recommends this analysis to anyone interested in enhancing public-private partnerships as a means of bettering the human condition.

In this summary, you will learn

How public-private partnerships proved valuable to the international Ebola response,
How the successes and failures of public-private partnerships manifested, and
How to build stronger public-private partnerships to address future epidemics.

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The Ebola outbreak was an unprecedented global health crisis that created extraordinary challenges for the international community. Where exceptionally complex challenges exist, so do collaborative opportunities to solve them. While the global response to the Ebola crisis was led by traditional public...