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“The World Is Still Reacting to Health Crises. That Has to Change.
Czunyi and colleagues (2026) present a timely perspective piece published by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) arguing that global health security, the collective capacity of countries to prevent, detect, and respond to public health threats, is no longer fit for purpose.
Written for a global policy audience, the piece makes a case that the world’s current approach to health security was designed for a simpler era of contained, single-pathogen outbreaks and cannot keep pace with today’s converging crises.
The authors build their case by pointing to the ways COVID-19, Ebola, mpox, and dengue have exposed the fragility of reactive, siloed systems. Climate change is expanding the reach of vector-borne and zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance is eroding treatment options, and population displacement is reshaping disease dynamics in ways existing frameworks fail to capture.
Misinformation is simultaneously eroding the public trust that effective responses depend on. Czunyi and colleagues argue that addressing these overlapping threats requires community-driven data systems, integrated surveillance, equity-centred approaches, and locally led research that is both scientifically robust and socially grounded.
Czunyi and colleagues argue that reactive, fragmented global health security systems are failing against converging threats, calling for integrated, equity-centred, and locally grounded approaches to build genuine resilience.”
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