Engineering for Pandemics: Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Proceedings of a Forum (2021) / Chapter Skim
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5 Preparing for Future Pandemics
5 Preparing for Future Pandemics
Pages 23-30
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Administrators have reduced "How do we make sure we're not bureaucracy and "system noise." just designing a lifesaving drug People have been working in shifts or vaccine for the United States and Western Europe, but…for [all] around the clock and using tempo countries…?
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We need to make sure that the entire profession looks at this as a community responsibility to ensure that we're not simply driven by making products and by the profit motive but making sure that we're helping address the problem in an equitable way." THE IMPORTANCE OF COLLABORATION A rapid response to the pandemic has required deep collaboration between engineers and other professionals. Medical devices, diagnostics, and therapeutics were rapidly tested and deployed.
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Alkire pointed out that the fastest country to reduce multidimensional poverty in recent years has been Sierra Leone, "and it did so during the Ebola pandemic." To address that earlier pandemic (2014–16) , Sierra Leone reformed health systems, delivered nutritional supplies to schools, mobilized communities, and took other key steps that had "a lasting impact in a positive way," Alkire said.
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Colombia, for example, was able to combine data about poverty with health records to develop a "very powerful response to the covid pandemic that was very targeted at different people, given the information that they had," she said. Countries with older or less detailed data might be able to do microsimulations or rapid impact surveys to identify vulnerable people.
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In ten broad categories -- including mitigating the effects of climate change, maintaining driverless vehicles, supervising cognitive aids for older adults, and providing health coaching for people with chronic illnesses -- he has identified at least 23 million jobs that could be created in the near-term future. As automation and artificial intelligence advance, for example, a major occupation for people will be trying to understand and correct flaws in systems that rely on those technologies.
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"We have to prepare people so they can perform the jobs" that will be available in the future, he said. "As a blue-collar worker without a high school education and no technical skills, you're not going to suddenly do these jobs." Preparing all students for the future also calls for a major expansion of the K–12 teaching force to ensure that everyone is prepared to undertake further education and skills training.
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If the pandemic were to reinvigorate STEM education from elementary school through college, "that would be a great outcome of what's been a very difficult year." Walt cited the new collaboration of scientists, engineers, and clinicians that has created "an amazing array of capability and capacity." The pandemic is a global crisis and requires a global solution, he said. The pandemic is a global crisis "We cannot solve these problems and requires a global solution.
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