Global human security in the post-COVID-19 era: The rising role of East Asia

PLoS Med. 2022 Jul 14;19(7):e1003939. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003939. eCollection 2022 Jul.

Kenji Shibuya¹, Chorh Chuan Tan², Asaph Young Chun³, Gabriel M Leung^{4

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¹ Soma COVID Vaccination Medical Center, Soma City, Fukushima, Japan.
² Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
³ Statistics Research Institute | Statistics Korea, Daejeon, The Republic of Korea.
⁴ School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China.
⁵ WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China.
⁶ Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health (D24H), Hong Kong Science Park, New Territories, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China.

Abstract

Kenji Shibuya and coauthors discuss the potential contribution of East Asian countries to global health in the light of COVID-19.

The authors received no specific funding for this work.