Planning for Pandemics: Lessons From the Past Decade

Belinda Bennett; Terry Carney

doi:10.1007/s11673-014-9555-y

Planning for Pandemics: Lessons From the Past Decade

J Bioeth Inq. 2015 Sep;12(3):419-28. doi: 10.1007/s11673-014-9555-y. Epub 2014 Jul 8.

Authors

Belinda Bennett¹, Terry Carney²

Affiliations

¹ Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. belinda.bennett@qut.edu.au.
² University of Sydney, and Visiting Research Professor, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia. terry.carney@sydney.edu.au.

Abstract

It is now 10 years since the disease we now know as SARS--severe acute respiratory syndrome--caused more than 700 deaths around the world and made more than 8,000 people ill. More recently, in 2009 the global community experienced the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century--the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic. This paper analyses the major developments in international public health law relating to infectious diseases in the period since SARS and considers their implications for pandemic planning.

Keywords: IHR (2005); Influenza; Pandemic plans; Public health laws.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Communicable Disease Control / legislation & jurisprudence*
Epidemics*
Global Health / legislation & jurisprudence*
Health Planning*
Humans
Influenza, Human / epidemiology
International Cooperation*
International Law*
Public Health / legislation & jurisprudence*
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / epidemiology