Learning from COVID-19 to prevent and prepare for pandemics in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Affiliations

• ¹ WHO Health Emergencies Programme, WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
• ² Research and Innovation Center, King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• ³ College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• ⁴ Science, Information and Dissemination, WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt.
• ⁵ WHO Health Emergencies Programme, WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Cairo, Egypt abubakara@who.int.
• ⁶ Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, World Health Organization, Geneve, Switzerland.