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Health Emergencies, Resource Allocation and Individual Health Security
Date: 31 July 2017
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Location: Room SG2, Alison Richard Building
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This seminar will be presented by Jon Herington, co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the Cambridge Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Centre.
When faced with a health emergency (e.g. SARS, Ebola, natural disasters), health care workers must choose whether to allocate resources to interventions which prioritize the emergency, at the expense of interventions which address ordinary health problems (e.g. malaria, AIDS, maternal mortality). Some have argued that devoting resources to control an emergency is almost always unjustified, because the actual (ex post) and expected (ex ante) health impact is dwarfed by the benefits of continuing to address the population’s ordinary, endemic health problems. In this paper, Jon Herington will argue that the provision of resources to health emergencies may be justified, even in cases where it does not maximize health impact, in so far as emergencies undermine the entire populations’ health security.
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