Abstract
This study analyses the UAE leadership's approach in response to the COVID-19 crisis through the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's Strategic Crisis Management Framework. This framework analyzes the crisis management in three phases: the preparedness, the response to mitigate damage and the feedback mechanism after the crisis. The analysis showed that the key components of the UAE's crisis management included efficient and able governance, integrated utilization of public-private partnerships and a global workforce of excellence. As a result, the UAE now ranks among the top 10 countries worldwide for its leadership and proactive approach during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Global Response to Infectious Diseases Index. The SWOT analysis on the response toward COVID-19 crisis management helped in critically analyzing and understanding the UAE's unified and systematic response to the pandemic, which provides developing and developed countries alike a new high standard for leadership and effective public health management.
Highlights
Ever since it has been identified in Wuhan in the Hubei province in China in December of 2019, the new strain of coronavirus responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 has spread to 213 countries and territories around the world with over 240M+ reported confirmed cases and a death toll of over 3.3 million lives [1, 2]
Health service delivery in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is through public-private partnerships and is regulated at both federal and local levels
This is overseen by the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) in the northern emirates, the Abu Dhabi Department of Health (DoH) and the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) in Abu Dhabi, and the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) in Dubai [6]
Summary
Ever since it has been identified in Wuhan in the Hubei province in China in December of 2019, the new strain of coronavirus responsible for the coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 has spread to 213 countries and territories around the world with over 240M+ reported confirmed cases and a death toll of over 3.3 million lives [1, 2]. Weakness As much as the multicultural population dynamics is a strength to this nation, one of the major weaknesses in handling the COVID-19 situation comes from the difficulties inherent in such highly multicultural, expatriate communities that comprise the largest part of the population This plays a key role in reducing effectiveness in response to disease control that differ between groups, with some more prone, locally, to lower adherence to pandemic guidelines and increased cohabitation density areas that create high-risk pockets of infection; this is observed in in lower socioeconomic demographic groups due to living situations and population habits. Further in the global politics, country wise different standards on vaccine passports, travel red lists, and bans make pandemic control even more hard-pressed
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