Your Place, Your Space

Appreciation for international peers shows up with more than words. Perhaps we extend a cultural competence partnership. Perhaps we share business. For some of us, collective advocacy for a collective healthier public messages this gratitude.  Though it feels good to work alongside one another, it should also feel good to rest alongside one another.  And today, restful and productive, I share words in my space.   This is my space, and I am thankful for you here.  Because you share your countries and worlds and space with me, I thank you.  Happy Thanksgiving, friends all over the world.

  The world has a sophisticated infectious disease, epidemiological and technological intersection. Multiple funding sources remove the risk of total epidemiological collapse. And, the epidemiological reporting mechanisms are familiar to one another worldwide.  There is enough structure to advance emergencies in infectious disease beyond medicine’s paternalistic culture. While the remainder of paternalism in medicine will take collaborative, significant energy to transform, we are fortunate that infectious disease emergencies are already energized.  Medicine’s inability to learn from the H1N1 geopolitical disagreements around definitions of outbreak, epidemic and pandemic spilled over into full failure of the COVID pandemic call. Delayed infectious disease definitions matter. From the start, failure in identification diminished confidence in medical science.  We should set a confident tone and better trajectory for future infectious disease emergencies, and remove th...

  The World Health Organization Dashboard for COVID-19 related Recommendations is thoughtfully organized and committed to improvement.  A thoughtful, committed response should reply with encouragement to listen to others, in their places and spaces.  How many agencies, communities or groups are the recommendations targeted to? How many agencies, communities or groups feel they need recommendations?  What is the compliance or adoption rate of the targeted agencies, communities or groups? What recommendation compliance and adoption did these agencies commit to?  What are the timeframes and points of progress by theme, by target group and by area of work? What timeframes were decided on with agencies, groups and government agreement?   What is the survey satisfaction and adoption of the proposed categories? What were the trends with write-in comments?  What are the points for reconvening to discuss rewording or restructuring a recommendation – lo...