PLoS Medicine (Jan 2012)

Preventing pandemics via international development: a systems approach.

  • Tiffany L Bogich,
  • Rumi Chunara,
  • David Scales,
  • Emily Chan,
  • Laura C Pinheiro,
  • Aleksei A Chmura,
  • Dennis Carroll,
  • Peter Daszak,
  • John S Brownstein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001354
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 12
p. e1001354

Abstract

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Tiffany Bogich and colleagues find that breakdown or absence of public health infrastructure is most often the driver in pandemic outbreaks, whose prevention requires mainstream development funding rather than emergency funding.