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Editorial
. 2024 Jan 29:384:q150.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.q150.

Pandemic lessons for the 2024 US presidential election

Gavin Yamey  1 , Ana V Diez Roux  2 , Jocalyn Clark  3 , Kamran Abbasi  3
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Editorial

Pandemic lessons for the 2024 US presidential election

Gavin Yamey et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Improving public health and averting mass death in the next crisis require systemic reforms

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Conflict of interest statement

Correspondence to: G Yamey gavin.yamey@duke.eduCompeting interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare the following. ADR and GY served as guest editors of The BMJ series. GY has received research funding to his institution to study pandemic preparedness and response from WHO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the Economic and Social Research Council, and the Duke Global Health Institute. He was a member of the covid-19 vaccine development taskforce hosted by the World Bank, and participated as an unpaid academic adviser in the consultation process that led to the launch of Covax. He was an unpaid adviser to the Justice Collaborative, helping to organise open letters to the Trump Administration and to North Carolina’s governor, signed by public health experts, calling for decarceration during the covid-19 pandemic. In a legal case in which seven Manitoba churches and three individuals argued that Manitoba’s public health measures violated their charter rights, he provided unpaid scientific guidance to the legal team that argued in support of public health measures. He writes an unpaid column for TIME magazine. ADR declares research funding to her institution to document and study health inequities in covid-19 related outcomes. She also served on the 2020 National Academy of Science committee producing a framework for equitable allocation of vaccine for the novel coronavirus.

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