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Two years after SARS-COV-2 was declared a public health emergency, global estimates of excess deaths from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation indicate that 18·2 million people died due to the pandemic by Dec 31, 2021—three times higher than official records suggest. 100 million people have been plunged into extreme poverty by the pandemic, according to World Bank estimates. While the true burden of COVID-19 is being unravelled, is a mental health crisis being unmasked? The pandemic has exposed long-standing gaps and a global underinvestment in mental health care and prevention, disproportionately affecting young people and women.

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A new force seems to be at work in public health law and practice. Consider, for example, the proliferation of references to ‘preparedness’; specifically, ‘public health emergency preparedness’ and its more specialised variants such as ‘public health emergency legal preparedness’ and ‘international legal preparedness’. There is also increasing use of related phrases such as ‘global public health security’ and ‘international health security’. Of course, a proliferation of terms is not enough to prove that a new force is in play: language shifts all the time in all sorts of areas, and although such changes may reflect and contribute to deep social transformation, they can also be nothing more than passing fashions with little or no impact. But public health emergency preparedness does not feel like a superficial, short-lived trend: in fact, it seems almost the exact opposite. Indeed, as David Fidler and Laurence Gostin emphasise in their recent book, Biosecurity in the Global Age, a ‘policy revolution’ seems to have taken place – a revolution brought about by a ‘collision’ of public health and security.1 The collision of security and public health is our focus in this article. But before explaining why, we need to define ‘public health emergency preparedness’, in particular its impressive–sounding correlate, ‘global public health security’, and its less readily comprehensible subset, ‘public health emergency legal preparedness’. In the World Health Report 2007, Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), described ‘global public health security’ as ‘the reduced vulnerability of populations to acute threats to health’.2 Later in the same report, more detailed definitions were provided: Public health security is … the activities required, both proactive and reactive, to minimize vulnerability to acute public health events that endanger the collective health of national populations. Global public health security widens this definition to include acute public health events that endanger the collective health of populations living across geographical regions and international boundaries … .[G]lobal health security, or lack of it, may also have an impact on economic or political stability, trade, tourism, access to goods and services and, if they occur repeatedly, on demographic stability.3 The other term that requires some explanation is ‘public health emergency legal preparedness’. Stated shortly, this is all about having the right laws in place and then using them in the right way in a time of public health emergency.4 In other words, it is about both legal preparedness for, and response to, public health emergencies – it is both proactive and reactive. More generally, it can be said to be an essential part of both public and global public health security, and a subset of public health emergency preparedness.

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During the global COVID-19 pandemic, the shortcomings and inequities in the global health system were amplified. International actors lost faith in the major global health institutions, and there was intense competition amongst states for critical supplies and vaccines. During these challenging circumstances, the African Union (AU) and its specialized technical institute (now autonomous agency) the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), led a multi-faceted response to combat COVID-19 in Africa and advocate for the African region globally. Beyond responding to the immediate crisis, the AU and Africa CDC recognized that Africa would need to build its capacity to respond to future public health security threats. They embraced the idea of the New Public Health Order for Africa to build public health institutions and workforces, expand manufacturing of critical medical supplies, increase public health resources, and build balanced and respectful partnerships ("Call to Action: Africa's New Public Health Order" 2022). In the years since the emergence of COVID-19, the AU and Africa CDC seized on the momentum created by the pandemic to build public health institutions and to take concrete action to begin to implement their vision for a New Public Health Order for Africa. This article focuses on how the response of the AU and Africa CDC to COVID-19 is driving an evolution in public health within Africa and the emerging impacts on global health governance more generally. It demonstrates that Africa is creating a space between state-based public health and global health governance by regionalizing public health to enhance Africa’s capacity and agency.

With the global spread of the COVID-19 epidemic, the impact of a series of chain reactions triggered by public health security issues on the economic prosperity has become the primary concern of today’s society. It makes us more deeply aware of the importance of developing health care. Therefore, it is very important to re-pay attention to the impact of long-term potential public health security problems on the degree of economic prosperity, and then to find the external factors that affect public health security problems and the transmission path of their effects on the degree of economic prosperity.For the above purpose, this paper constructs a dynamic spatial Durbin model and uses the panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2007 to 2017 to study the spatial linkage mechanism of medical system, public health security and economic prosperity. The study finds that: Although the current treatment capacity is weak, under the existing medical system, the level of medical security and treatment capacity can adjust the negative impact of medical security problems on economic growth, the activity of financial institutions and the activity of the stock market, and there is an obvious spatial spillover effect. On this basis, the mechanism of public health security on economic prosperity is further analyzed. It is considered that public health security problems inhibit economic growth, financial institution activity, stock market activity, and spatial spillover effects to varying degrees by hindering exports, FDI and the upgrading of industrial structure. It is worth noting that the spatial spillover effect of exports on economic growth is not significant, and the spatial spillover effect of FDI on economic growth and financial institution activity is not significant. Finally, the regression results of night lighting data once again confirm the existence of the regulation effect of medical system and the transmission mechanism of public health security problems. Among the three transmission paths, FDI accounts for the largest proportion, followed by exports, and the proportion of advanced industrial structure is relatively small.The marginal contribution of this paper may be reflected in the following three aspects: First, the economic growth, financial institution activity and stock market activity are brought into the index system of economic prosperity at the same time, and the research perspective is extended to the spatial dimension. From the perspective of spatial spillover effect, this paper analyzes the spatial geographical relationship between public health security and economic prosperity. The important role of spillover effect in promoting regional coordinated development is analyzed. Second, it analyzes the mechanism of the medical system in reducing the impact of public health security problems on economic prosperity, in order to strengthen public health investment and personnel training, improve disease prevention and control conditions, optimize the national disease prevention, and control system to provide reference. Third, it further analyzes the transmission mechanism of public health security issues affecting economic prosperity through exports, FDI and advanced industrial structure, to provide support for adjusting the trade structure, further improving the policy of attracting investment, and promoting the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure. In addition, the authenticity of the index system of economic prosperity is verified by using the night light luminance value (DN), which avoids the data distortion and minimizes the error of statistical regression.

Brower and Chalk, authors of The Global Threat of New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: Reconciling U.S. National Security and Public Health Policy, describe their book’s purpose as examining “the changing nature of security” and focusing on “the threat of infectious diseases.” There are many examples in today’s world where the intersection of threats to public health and national security should direct the attention of policymakers, security and public health strategists, and the systems that support each toward an organized response. The authors use two case studies: HIV/AIDS in South Africa and the U.S. public health response system. The first case, in South Africa, illustrates how a single microbial agent can undermine the economic, social, and medical underpinnings of a developed country. The second study shows the negative effect of newly emerging diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Hantavirus infection, West Nile virus infection, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and intentionally released agents (Bacillus anthracis). This study demonstrates how events can overload the public health response system and weaken public confidence in its government. The reader can easily conclude that the intersection of disease and national security can be dangerously destabilizing and seriously undermine a nation’s social, economic, and political order. The current outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome reinterates the global nature and warp speed of emerging infections. In their summary and conclusions, the authors provide recommendations for policymakers addressing both public health and security issues. The thrust of the authors’ conclusions is to push policymakers and strategists to actions that strengthen the infrastructure of a public health response system and broaden the traditional definition of national security to include the impact of naturally occurring and intentionally released microbial agents. The authors present a compelling case study for HIV/AIDS in South Africa, where an emerging disease has gone unchecked and is having a devastating effect on a developed country. The case study of the U.S. public health response system is interesting and thoughtfully presented but lacks sufficient and carefully documented detail to aid the reader in drawing conclusions and formulating solutions. Unsubstantiated or incorrect examples also detract from the overall presentation of this case study. For instance, the contention that lack of good communications with area physicians and hospitals resulted in the deaths of postal workers in the fall 2001 anthrax crisis is not supported by the author’s reference or by any other authoritative materials known to this reviewer. In the public health response case study, the authors provide broad recommendations aimed at strengthening the public health infrastructure. Also included is an excellent summary of the current status of efforts begun in the mid-1990s in the United States to address the infrastructure of public health. The recommendations are presented in such a way that the shortcomings of the system can be addressed in critical areas, including a well-trained public health workforce; interagency coordination; private sector, hospital, and emergency response integration in public health; technical and educational interventions; and domestic and global investment in public health. Brower and Chalk’s book is a powerful and useful argument for the urgent need to integrate and streamline public health and national security strategies.

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Background:
 The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected global public health security and economic development, and is a huge test for China and other countries around the world. Among the factors affecting the outbreak of the epidemic, human abuse of wildlife appears to be the most important. Under the influence of relevant factors, China has formulated and implemented policies, laws and regulations on a comprehensive ban on wildlife.
 Objectives:
 Through the integration and impact analysis of China's comprehensive wildlife fasting policy and relevant laws and regulations, this paper aims to provide reference for other countries in epidemic prevention and control and the improvement of public health governance.
 Methods:
 Through the integration of relevant policies and regulations and detailed introduction, the author studied from three aspects: policies and regulations related to people's life, health and safety, improvement of public health and safety risk prevention and promotion of environmental protection and human civilization development, and analyzed its impact on all aspects of human society, especially public health safety and emergency management system and management capacity, to remind people to change the habit of over eating wild animals.
 Results:
 The article is of reference and guiding significance in promoting the global implementation of comprehensive fasting for wild animals, and in the current epidemic prevention and control of other countries, maintaining social public health and security governance, and safeguarding human health.
 Main Contribution to Evidence-Based Practice:
 The article demonstrates that the relevant policies, laws and regulations of China's comprehensive prohibition of wildlife have reference and guiding significance for epidemic prevention, maintenance of social public health and safety management, and protection of human health. In addition, it has promoted the global implementation of a comprehensive ban on wildlife.

From the end of 2019 to now, due to the spread of covid-19 in all corners of the world, it has exposed the lack of public health construction in rural schools, and the obvious lack of public health emergency handling ability and literacy in schools, prompting the state, society and the public to pay increasing attention to public health in rural schools. In the post epidemic era, the epidemic situation may return. The prevention and control of sudden infectious public health events in rural schools still faces great uncertainty, complexity and arduousness. The public health construction in rural schools cannot be taken lightly. Taking this opportunity, this paper analyzes the existing problems, puts forward effective targeted optimization strategies, and provides directions and ideas for the future public health strategies of rural schools, in order to maintain the normal teaching order of rural schools.

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Solidarity is a concept increasingly employed in bioethics whose application merits further clarity and explanation. Given how vital cooperation and community-level care are to mitigating communicable disease transmission, we use lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to reveal how solidarity is a useful descriptive and analytical tool for public health scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. Drawing upon an influential framework of solidarity that highlights how solidarity arises from the ground up, we reveal how structural forces can impact the cultivation of solidarity from the top down, particularly through ensuring robust access to important social determinants of health. Public health institutions can support solidarity movements among individuals and communities by adopting a lens of social justice when considering public health priorities and, in turn, promote health equity.

Enhancing public health and safety against biological threats arising from natural or man‐made causes is an overwhelming challenge for traditional governance structures. The rapid advances in the life sciences—although clearly bringing enormous benefits to public health—similarly raise concerns among governments, scientists and the public about potential risks and abuse. As seen in the 2003 SARS outbreak, increased transnational activities in trading, tourism and, in particular, air travel now allow infectious diseases to spread around the world in days. Ethical limits, owing to advances in such areas as genomics and stem‐cell research, are perceived to be under pressure. Similarly, security experts find it difficult to assess the potential implications of biological research, be it deliberate misuse by terrorists and government‐run weapons programmes or a lack of awareness by individual scientists. What is needed is an international and multidisciplinary effort to assess in full the risks involved and to identify methods to manage biological risks effectively. Communicating the results of risk assessment in a balanced and objective way is of equal importance, to ensure that public confidence in science is not undermined, and that sensible and practical regulations are developed and implemented where needed. Moreover, such an effort must be conducted at an international level with active participation—if not leadership—from the scientific community. The International Council for the Life Sciences (ICLS; Washington, DC, USA) was created specifically to help achieve this objective. The full spectrum of biological risks, ranging from emerging infectious disease to premeditated misuse, represents an urgent and global challenge for governments and intergovernmental organizations (Fig 1). Life‐science research and its commercial exploitation are essentially international in nature. They bring important benefits to medicine, public health, the food industry, agriculture and industrial processes; at the same time, potential risks to public safety and security from deliberate misuse or negligence are …

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