Global Health Events: The Surge of the New Pandemics, and Good Governance Strategies

April is the cruelest month, wrote T.S. Eliot in his poem “The Waste Land”, published in 1922, not long after the 1918 influenza pandemic and World War I. More than a hundred years later, so too is the world coming to grips with the aftershocks of COVID-19, alongside the polycrisis of inflation, debt, food insecurity, climate change, and so on.