Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak: A Guide to Planning from the Schoolhouse to the White House

David C. Pate, MD, JD · Ted Epperly, MD

abr 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narración de Peter Lerman

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Another pandemic is coming. We need to identify the lessons learned from our successes and failures during the COVID-19 pandemic to plan better for our future response. In Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak, David C. Pate, MD, JD, and Ted Epperly, MD, combine their decades of experience as doctors and health care leaders who have led their organizations through numerous public health challenges to create an extensive list of practical recommendations for a variety of organizations and agencies to better prepare for the next pandemic. They worked together in the fight against COVID-19 and the misinformation that devastated so many communities across the country. From the exam room to the public health board meeting room to the state capitol, Pate and Epperly use their expertise to craft 117 specific recommendations that organizations and governments can implement now in order to better prepare for the future. They divide these recommendations into checklists specific to different contexts: schools, hospitals, public health agencies, state governments, and the federal government. Public health officials, medical practitioners, state and local officials, school board members, disaster management leaders, and anyone with a stake in preparing their communities against future outbreaks will benefit from the recommendations Pate and Epperly outline.

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David C. Pate, MD, JD, is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine and health care attorney, retired from his prior role as president and CEO of St. Luke's Health System. He has served as a member of the Governor's Coronavirus Working Group in Idaho, to advise on the public health issues associated with COVID-19.

Ted Epperly, MD, is a board-certified family medicine physician and the president and CEO of Full Circle Health. For fifteen years he served as a member of the board for Central District Health, the largest public health department in the state of Idaho.

Peter Lerman is a narrator from the heart of New York City: Brooklyn born and raised. He has appeared onstage as Horace Vandergelder in Hello Dolly, Bobby Gould in Speed-the-Plow, the Governor of Texas in Best Little Whorehouse..., Jonathan Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace, and Lenny in Rumors.