Rethinking Public Health Governance for a Pandemic Age II

Wednesday, 9 July 2025: 15:00-16:45
Location: FSE030 (Faculty of Education Sciences (FSE))
RC15 Sociology of Health (host committee)

Language: English

According to many public health experts, we are now living in an age of recurrent pandemics. This session will consider the adequacy of current public health planning and preparedness for future pandemics—ones of equal or greater magnitude to the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest pandemic highlighted many failures of pandemic governance, including risk management and the generation of global inequalities; for example, in access to vaccines and other resources needed to manage infections and prevent disease and death. The session will draw lessons from COVID-19 and other pandemics and epidemics for public health in the future, including the adequacy of international bodies such as the WHO and the UN whose failures were all too evident in the three years of COVID-19.
Session Organizer:
Alan PETERSEN, Monash University, Australia
Oral Presentations
How Did States’ COVID-19 Mitigation Policies Affect Drug Overdoses and Suicides in the United States?
Shannon MONNAT, USA
Ignorance and Omission in the Public Health Care System in the Age of Pandemic: Quests for the Roles of Funeral Directors
Jimin OH, Republic of Korea
On the Dominance of Mass Persuasion over Policy in Addressing the Global Epidemic of Obesity
Mark WOLFSON, University of California, Riverside, USA
A Critical Review of Public-Private Partnerships in the COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain
Xuejing QI, Ghent university, Belgium
The Complexities of Fear in Risk and Emergency Governance: Lessons from the COVID19 Pandemic
Swen SEEBACH, Universitat Abat Oliba CEU, Spain
Distributed Papers
Assessing State Healthcare System Readiness in Public Health Crises: Insights from a Tribal-Dominant Area
Saswat Kumar Pradhan PRADHAN, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
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