Consequences of Covid-19 : A One Health Approach to the Responses, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

No disease has upended life more in the past fifty years than COVID-19. As the pandemic unfolded, coeditors Christine Crudo Blackburn and Gerald W. Parker saw how many areas of society are impacted and how those impacts can ripple through to other sectors.

Seeking to provide both warnings of these vulnerabilities and direction for future efforts to address them, Blackburn and Parker have assembled a cross-disciplinary, multinational team of researchers and writers to provide a critical look at the global response—success or failure—to the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequences of COVID-19: A One Health Approach to the Responses, Challenges and Lessons Learned reviews the multiple implications of COVID-19 for society: in public health research, in education, in human-animal interaction, in public policy, in media and online information, and in domestic and international economic considerations. Perhaps even more critically, this well-rounded analysis reviews the lessons learned to offer constructive directions for future research, policymaking, and education.

This important compendium will serve as a benchmark for the study of and preparedness for potential future public health crises such as COVID-19. As Blackburn notes in her conclusion, “this will not be the last pandemic. It may not even be the last pandemic in our lifetime.”

CHRISTINE CRUDO BLACKBURN is the editor of Preparing for Pandemics in the Modern World. An assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and a faculty fellow at the USA Center for Rural Health Preparedness at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, she previously served as deputy director of the Pandemic and Biosecurity Policy Program at the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. GERALD W. PARKER is associate dean for Global One Health in the Texas A&M University School of Veterinary and Biomedical Science and director of the Pandemic and Biosecurity Policy Program at the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs. Previously, Parker served in federal public service, including senior leadership positions in the Department of the Army, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and Department of Defense, leading biodefense, health security, and all-hazards preparedness and response organizations and programs.