The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Public Health Teacher-the Lessons We Must Learn

Sofia Lombatti^{1

2}, Avi Magid^{1

3

4}, Nadav Davidovitch^{1

3}, John Middleton^{1

5}, Mohamud Sheek-Hussein^{6

7}, Henrique Lopes^{1

8}, Natia Skhvitaridze^{1

9}, Hazem Agha^{1

10}, Daniel Lopez-Acuña¹¹, José Martínez Olmos¹¹, Ariane Bauernfeind^{1

11}, Vladimir Prikazsky^{1

12}, Nora Vesela^{1

13}, Alena Petrakova^{1

13}, Gaetano Pierpaolo Privitera^{1

14}, Jean Philippe Naboulet^{1

15}, Lore Leighton¹, Robert Otok¹, John Reid^{1

16}

Affiliations

¹ Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), Brussels, Belgium.
² Population Health Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
³ School of Public Health, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
⁴ Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
⁵ Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
⁶ Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
⁷ School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, United States.
⁸ NOVA Center for Global Health, NOVA University Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
⁹ School of Health Sciences, University of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
¹⁰ Faculty of Public Health, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine.
¹¹ Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain.
¹² Faculty of Medical Studies, Technical University of Liberec, Liberec, Czechia.
¹³ Faculty of Health Sciences, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czechia.
¹⁴ Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia), University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
¹⁵ Département METIS-EHESP, Rennes, France.
¹⁶ School of Allied and Public Health, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom.

Editorial

Sofia Lombatti et al. Public Health Rev. 2024.

. 2024 May 7:45:1607232.

doi: 10.3389/phrs.2024.1607232. eCollection 2024.

¹ Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER), Brussels, Belgium.
² Population Health Sciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
³ School of Public Health, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
⁴ Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
⁵ Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
⁶ Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
⁷ School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, United States.
⁸ NOVA Center for Global Health, NOVA University Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
⁹ School of Health Sciences, University of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
¹⁰ Faculty of Public Health, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine.
¹¹ Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain.
¹² Faculty of Medical Studies, Technical University of Liberec, Liberec, Czechia.
¹³ Faculty of Health Sciences, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czechia.
¹⁴ Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia), University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
¹⁵ Département METIS-EHESP, Rennes, France.
¹⁶ School of Allied and Public Health, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Keywords: ASPHER; COVID-19; lessons learned; pandemic; recommendations.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they do not have any conflicts of interest.

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