A global health action agenda for the Biden administration

Authors

Lawrence O. Gostin, Georgetown University - Law Center - O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health LawFollow
Donna E. Shalala, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Margaret A. Hamburg, National Academy of Medicine
Barry R. Bloom, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
Jeffrey P. Koplan, Emory Global Health Institute, Emory University
Barbara K. Rimer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Michelle A. Williams, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2020

DOI

10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32585-X

Abstract

Joe Biden will assume the US presidency at a time of unprecedented global health crises, with the COVID-19 pandemic and major setbacks in reducing poverty, hunger, and disease. The COVID-19 pandemic offers rare opportunities for the US President-elect to spearhead long-overdue structural changes and revitalise global health leadership. Building trust among global partners will be challenging, given the USA's withdrawal from, and disruption of, international cooperation under the presidency of Donald Trump. The USA will have to lead in a different, more collaborative way. Here, we offer a Global Action Agenda for the Biden Administration.

Publication Citation

The Lancet, Online First, Dec. 1, 2020, at 1-3.

Scholarly Commons Citation

Gostin, Lawrence O.; Shalala, Donna E.; Hamburg, Margaret A.; Bloom, Barry R.; Koplan, Jeffrey P.; Rimer, Barbara K.; and Williams, Michelle A., "A global health action agenda for the Biden administration" (2020). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2335.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2335