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For this special edition we asked our writers and readers of FT Health for their thoughts on global health for the year ahead. Here are some of their priorities.
We start with lessons from the current crisis.
Andrew Jack, global education editor and FT Health founder, says:
Even as policymakers cope with the continuing demands of coronavirus, they need to focus on two areas. The first is how to ensure investments being put in place for testing, surveillance and response can be sustained and scaled to apply to a wide range of future pandemic threats. That means more monitoring of a broader range of infectious diseases and better mechanisms to share information.