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Promoting Science Communication for the Purpose of Pandemic Preparedness and Response: An Assessment of the Relevance of Pre-COVID Pandemic “early warnings”

  • Marcelo de Araujo ORCID logo EMAIL logo and Daniel de Vasconcelos Costa ORCID logo
From the journal Human Affairs

Abstract

Given the abrupt global disruption caused by SARS-CoV-2, one might think that the COVID pandemic was an unpredictable event. But in the years leading up to the emergence of the COVID pandemic, several documents had already been warning of the increasing occurrences of new disease outbreaks with pandemic potential and lack of corresponding policies to promote pandemic preparedness and response. In this article, we call these documents “early warnings”. We argue that a survey of early warnings can help science communicators to promote the public understanding of evidence-based pandemic preparedness and response policies at local or international level. Our proposal differs from other approaches to pandemic preparedness and response in that it highlights the relevance of documents published before the COVID outbreak. We show that the early warnings did not become outdated after the COVID outbreak, but, rather, that they are even more pressing now.


Corresponding author: Marcelo de Araujo, Faculty of Law, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, E-mail:

Award Identifier / Grant number: 203.869/2022, 26/200.432/2023

Award Identifier / Grant number: 304635/2022-7

Acknowledgements

Marcelo de Araujo received financial support provided by CNPq (Grant Nr. 304635/2022-7) and FAPERJ (Grant Nr. 26/200.432/2023), and also benefited from insightful discussions with Lukas Meyer (University of Graz, Austria) in the course of a joint research on climate change and pandemics. Daniel de Vasconcelos Costa benefited from support provided by FAPERJ (Grant Nr. 203.869/2022). The authors are members of the research initiative Bioethics, Distributive Justice, and Pandemics, funded by CNPq (Grant Nr. 409953/2022-9). The authors would like to thank Romina Rekers (University of Graz, Austria) for comments on an earlier draft, and Guilherme de Almeida and José Luiz Nunes for invaluable assistance with the python coding for the generation of charts available in our survey of early warnings. Our students Marco Antonio Lopes (State University of Rio de Janeiro/FAPERJ, Brazil) and Pedro Ribeiro Menezes (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) also contributed with invaluable research assistance. Raffael Alexander de Araujo (KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) contributed with artwork. The authors would also like to thank three anonymous reviewers for their invaluable suggestions on a previous version of the manuscript.

  1. Conflict of interest: The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

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Received: 2023-07-05
Accepted: 2024-03-09
Published Online: 2024-04-10
Published in Print: 2024-04-25

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