How do we respond to growing threats to health security?
Channel: War Studies KCL
Date: 10/03/2022

Two years on from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the scale and diversity of health security threats continues to challenge governments and practitioners worldwide. Various crises such as the US Anthrax Attacks, SARS, Ebola and COVID-19 have repeatedly shown the difficulty anticipating and responding to rapidly changing threat landscapes.

- Chair: Gemma Bowsher, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
- Professor Máire Connolly, Professor of Global Health and Development, National University of Ireland, Galway
- Dame Jenny Harries DBE, CEO UK Health Security Agency
- Professor Richard Sullivan, King’s College London

Watch this War Studies at 60 seminar exploring how we should address increasingly diverse future threats to health security. They look at how we can support health systems across high and low income settings to prepare for health emergencies, and  health, government and security actors engage with one another to anticipate health security threats. Most important they share how can we prevent the next pandemic from occurring in the first place.