How solid is the data underlying the "pandemic preparedness" agenda?

David has comprehensive expertise in both clinical medicine and public health (see short bio below). In this talk, David dissects the WHO's claims that the world is facing a wave of ever-more frequent, dangerous and costly outbreaks, and that their "pandemic preparedness" agenda is the appropriate answer. He takes the viewer through several key papers which are used by the WHO to prop up its case. He shows the WHO's claims to have no basis in fact. Instead, the WHO starts with flawed research and further twists it into outright misinformation.

Also see his comprehensive report on the topic:

Bell, D. et al. (2024) Rational Policy over Panic: Re-evaluating Pandemic Risk within the Global Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Agenda

https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/download/228/rational-policy-over-panic

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Bio: David Bell is a clinical and public health physician with a PhD in population health and background in internal medicine, modelling and epidemiology of infectious disease. He has worked in global health and biotech for the past 20 years. Previously, he was Director of the Global Health Technologies at Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund in the USA, Programme Head for Malaria and Acute Febrile Disease at FIND in Geneva, and worked in infectious diseases and coordinated malaria diagnostics strategy at the World Health Organization. He currently consults in biotech and international public health, and is a senior scholar of the Brownstone Institute, and consults for the REPPPARE project on pandemic risk at the University of Leeds.