What measures were effective in previous pandemics?
Can we anticipate the impacts of COVID-19 on nutrition, mental health and other health issues in order to address them proactively?
What is health systems resilience and does it explain why some countries are combatting COVID-19 more effectively?
These and other critical questions during the COVID-19 health emergency have been addressed by robust health policy and systems research published in Health Policy and Planning.
We have made a special collection of papers freely accessible.
Learning from Ebola, SARS and H1N1
- Community engagement for health system resilience: evidence from Liberia’s Ebola epidemic
Kathryn M Barker, Emilia J Ling, Mosoka Fallah, Brian VanDeBogert, Yvonne Kodl …
Published: 10 February 2020 - Maternal health after Ebola: unmet needs and barriers to healthcare in rural Sierra Leone
James W T Elston, Kostas Danis, Nell Gray, Kim West, Kamalini Lokuge
Published: 07 November 2019 - Consensus building around nutrition lessons from the 2014–16 Ebola virus disease outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone
Stephen R Kodish, Aline Simen-Kapeu, Jean-Max Beauliere, Ismael Ngnie-Teta, Mohammed B Jalloh …
Published: 07 February 2019 - EDITOR’S CHOICE: Impact of interventions and the incidence of ebola virus disease in Liberia—implications for future epidemics
Thomas D Kirsch, Heidi Moseson, Moses Massaquoi, Tolbert G Nyenswah, Rachel Goodermote …
Published: 29 October 2016 - Healthcare providers on the frontlines: a qualitative investigation of the social and emotional impact of delivering health services during Sierra Leone’s Ebola epidemic
Shannon A. McMahon, Lara S. Ho, Hannah Brown, Laura Miller, Rashid Ansumana …
Published: 08 June 2016 - Avian and pandemic human influenza policy in South-East Asia: the interface between economic and public health imperatives
Petcharat Pongcharoensuk, Wiku Adisasmito, Le Minh Sat, Pornpit Silkavute, Lilis Muchlisoh …
Published: 22 August 2011 - Dilemmas of securitization and health risk management in the People’s Republic of China: the cases of SARS and avian influenza
Elizabeth Wishnick
Published: 18 October 2010 - Strengthening the International Health Regulations: lessons from the H1N1 pandemic
Kumanan Wilson, John S Brownstein, David P Fidler
Published: 01 July 2010
How health system resilience can shape pandemic response
- Review of international efforts to strengthen the global outbreak response system since the 2014–16 West Africa Ebola Epidemic
Sanjana J Ravi, Michael R Snyder, Caitlin Rivers
Published: 08 January 2019 - EDITOR’S CHOICE: Towards an understanding of resilience: responding to health systems shocks
Johanna Hanefeld, Susannah Mayhew, Helena Legido-Quigley, Frederick Martineau, Marina Karanikolos …
Published: 09 January 2018 - Beyond the crisis: did the Ebola epidemic improve resilience of Liberia’s health system?
Emilia J Ling, Elysia Larson, Rose Jallah Macauley, Yvonne Kodl, Brian VanDeBogert …
Published: 11 November 2017 - From bouncing back, to nurturing emergence: reframing the concept of resilience in health systems strengthening
Edwine W Barasa, Keith Cloete, Lucy Gilson
Published: 11 November 2017 - Interrogating resilience in health systems development
Remco van de Pas, Majdi Ashour, Anuj Kapilashrami, Suzanne Fustukian
Published: 23 September 2017
One health and pandemic preparedness
- How do health workers experience and cope with shocks? Learning from four fragile and conflict-affected health systems in Uganda, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Cambodia
Sophie Witter, Haja Wurie, Pamela Chandiwana, Justine Namakula, Sovannarith So …
Published: 11 November 2017 - ‘One health’ and development priorities in resource-constrained countries: policy lessons from avian and pandemic influenza preparedness in Zambia
Kennedy Kapala Mwacalimba, Judith Green
Published: 14 February 2014 - Crossing institutional boundaries: mapping the policy process for improved control of endemic and neglected zoonoses in sub-Saharan Africa
Anna Okello, Susan Welburn, James Smith
Published: 07 July 2014 - Buy now, saved later? The critical impact of time-to-pandemic uncertainty on pandemic cost-effectiveness analyses
Tom Drake, Zaid Chalabi, Richard Coker
Published: 24 December 2013 - Existing health inequalities in India: informing preparedness planning for an influenza pandemic
Supriya Kumar, Sandra C Quinn
Published: 29 November 2011 - Securitization of infectious diseases in Vietnam: the cases of HIV and avian influenza
Jonathan Herington
Published: 18 October 2010 - Pandemic influenza preparedness in Latin America: analysis of national strategic plans
Ana Mensua, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Richard Coker
Published: 01 May 2009 - Pandemic influenza preparedness in Africa is a profound challenge for an already distressed region: analysis of national preparedness plans
Giuseppina Ortu, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Richard Coker
Published: 01 April 2008
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