Assessing the role of qualitative factors in pandemic responses

Melisa Mei Jin Tan; Rachel Neill; Victoria Haldane; Anne-Sophie Jung; Chuan De Foo; See Mieng Tan; Pami Shrestha; Monica Verma; Mathias Bonk; Salma M Abdalla; Helena Legido-Quigley

doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-067512

Assessing the role of qualitative factors in pandemic responses

BMJ. 2021 Nov 28:375:e067512. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067512.

Authors

Melisa Mei Jin Tan¹, Rachel Neill², Victoria Haldane³, Anne-Sophie Jung⁴, Chuan De Foo⁵, See Mieng Tan¹, Pami Shrestha⁵, Monica Verma⁵, Mathias Bonk^{6

7}, Salma M Abdalla^{8

7}, Helena Legido-Quigley^{5

4

7}

Affiliations

¹ Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore melisatan@nus.edu.sg.
² Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, US.
³ Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Canada.
⁴ Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK.
⁵ Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
⁶ Berlin Institute of Global Health.
⁷ Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Secretariat.
⁸ School of Public Health, Boston University, US.

Abstract

Melisa Tan and colleagues argue that assessments of national pandemic preparedness and response capacities should be extended to include social factors, leadership, and use of evidence

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / diagnosis
COVID-19 / epidemiology
COVID-19 / prevention & control*
COVID-19 / virology
Decision Making / ethics
Disaster Planning / organization & administration*
Female
Global Health / standards*
Health Resources / organization & administration*
Healthcare Disparities / statistics & numerical data
Humans
International Cooperation
Leadership
Male
Pandemics / economics
Pandemics / prevention & control*
Qualitative Research
SARS-CoV-2 / genetics
Social Class
Social Participation / psychology