America Dissected The Contagion Next Time with Prof Sandro Galea
Nov 9, 2021
This week, Sandro Galea, Dean of the Boston University School of Public Health and author of 'The Contagion Next Time', delves into the critical flaws in the U.S. pandemic response. He discusses how early interventions unintentionally widened inequalities and how targeted support could have protected the most vulnerable. Galea highlights the need for a shift in public health investment towards social determinants and warns against political fragmentation. His compelling insights urge proactive measures to reshape our approach before the next pandemic strikes.
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Prevention Paradox Drives Our Sick-Care System
- People avoid paying for prevention when healthy but will pay anything when sick.
- This prevention paradox drives oversized spending on sick care and poorer population health.
Pandemics Are Socially Produced
- Pandemics are not just natural events but result from human social choices and inequalities.
- Homelessness, precarious work, chronic disease, and poverty create the kindling for pandemics.
Longstanding Mentor-Mentee Partnership
- Sandro Galea and Abdul El-Sayed have a long mentor-mentee relationship that shaped Abdul's career.
- That history frames a candid, wide-ranging conversation about public health strategy.
