National responses to covid-19: drivers, complexities, and uncertainties in the first year of the pandemic

Anne-Sophie Jung; Victoria Haldane; Rachel Neill; Shishi Wu; Margaret Jamieson; Monica Verma; Melisa Tan; Chuan De Foo; Salma M Abdalla; Pami Shrestha; Alvin Qijia Chua; Nellie Bristol; Sudhvir Singh; Michael Bartos; Shunsuke Mabuchi; Mathias Bonk; Christine McNab; George K Werner; Raj Panjabi; Anders Nordström; Helena Legido-Quigley

doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-068954

National responses to covid-19: drivers, complexities, and uncertainties in the first year of the pandemic

BMJ. 2021 Nov 28:375:e068954. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-068954.

Authors

Anne-Sophie Jung¹, Victoria Haldane², Rachel Neill³, Shishi Wu⁴, Margaret Jamieson², Monica Verma⁵, Melisa Tan⁵, Chuan De Foo⁵, Salma M Abdalla^{6

7}, Pami Shrestha⁵, Alvin Qijia Chua⁵, Nellie Bristol⁶, Sudhvir Singh^{6

8}, Michael Bartos⁶, Shunsuke Mabuchi⁶, Mathias Bonk⁶, Christine McNab⁶, George K Werner⁶, Raj Panjabi⁶, Anders Nordström⁶, Helena Legido-Quigley^{9

5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
² Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Canada.
³ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA.
⁴ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada.
⁵ Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, Singapore.
⁶ The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Secretariat.
⁷ School of Public Health, Boston University, USA.
⁸ Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
⁹ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK ephhlq@nus.edu.sg.

Abstract

Anne-Sophie Jung and colleagues argue that research and policy making must embrace complexity to build sustainable and long term approaches to pandemic preparedness

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / epidemiology*
COVID-19 / prevention & control
COVID-19 Vaccines / therapeutic use
Health Inequities
Health Policy
Humans
Masks
Pandemics*
Physical Distancing
Politics
Public Health*
SARS-CoV-2
Time Factors
Travel
Uncertainty

Substances

COVID-19 Vaccines