Storella Publishes Op-Ed on Diplomats’ Role in Global Health Crises
The Hill on the role American diplomats play on the frontlines in heading off dangerous pandemics and how bolstering health diplomacy can help address the current and further outbreaks.
In the article, titled “Want to defeat COVID-19? Empower your diplomats,” Storella and co-author Jeff Hawkins – former United States diplomat and researcher at the French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs – draw on experience fighting an Ebola outbreak to explain how health diplomacy can facilitate an effect response to health crises. In that instance, American diplomats had developed partnerships with local officials in West Africa meaning coordination of assistance and surveillance was all the easier.
day. here s a way you can look like you re on top of it by calling a big meeting like this. are you telling me you know smomething that may be possible? i think all the watchers not just me expect something tonight. it s the armed forces and the people s army. typically something does. happen around here. they conducted 26 tests last year. they are not going to stop on a dime. and they have been e ready to conduct a nuclear test for at least a month. all the indications are they are ready to go. the question is whether they are going to pull the trigger or not. my thinking is, and this is speculation, if you re having a big meeting, it might be because something big is going to. happen the night before. i guess we ll see. jim walsh, i appreciate your intel. we ll loop back and have a conversation on the other side of this big meeting. i appreciate it. coming up next, the first daughter taking up an unofficial diplomat role?