How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates Hardcover Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates Coming in 2022 from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Coming in 2022 from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Avoid a Climate DisasterBefore Bill Gates became an expert on climate science, he was known as one of the few who studied pandemics - how they start, how they spread, how they can be controlled. He warned us years ago in a now-famous TED Talk of their arrival in our future. The future, of course, is now, and now is when we have to plan against a next one.HOW TO PREVENT THE NEXT PANDEMIC is a clear and upbeat plan of what every country, every government leader, and every individual can do in order to help prevent another pandemic, grounded in Bills firsthand experience with the Gates Foundations commitment to fighting Covid-19. Author Biography Bill Gates is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. In 1975, he cofounded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Today, he is cochair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he has spent more than twenty years working on global health and development issues, including pandemic prevention, disease eradication, and problems concerning water, sanitation, and hygiene. He has three children. Review Every experts door opens to Gates and he is a fiendish researcher ... formidably informative ... One of his most intruiging insights was that there is a rough correlation between how much people trust their governments and a countrys success in fighting the pandemic ... he comes up with four recommendations - make better tools to deal with infectious diseases; develop his pandemic fire brigade; help pooer countries to develop disease surveillance; and strengthen primary health care systems, especially in low and middle-income countries. Who could argue? -- Bryan Appleyard * Sunday Times *In 2015, the American technologist and philanthropist Bill Gates warned that humanity wasnt ready for a pandemic. Seven years on, as the world emerges (hopefully) from a pandemic for which it wasnt ready, he thinks we have it within our power to make sure this one was the last. There will be more disease outbreaks, but we now possess the tools and the knowledge to prevent them from becoming global catastrophes. Gatess optimism is refreshing after the gloom of the last two years. ... The roadmap he lays out sounds feasible. It involves strengthening disease surveillance and strengthening primary healthcare systems around the world ... Gatess proposals are wise, and his goals should be our goals. -- New Statesman * Laura Spinney *In this concise and lucid book, global health activist Gates reflects on the current COVID-19 pandemic, considers future ones, and renders several sensible recommendations for prevention . . . Passionate but never preachy, Gates delivers an expert, well-reasoned, and robust appeal for the world to unite in averting upcoming pandemics. -- BooklistGates is good at guiding readers through his blueprint for the technological, economic and regulatory fixes to stop the next pathogen from causing global havoc, never assuming too much knowledge. ... His book is punctuated with powerful examples from personal experience. ... How to Prevent the Next Pandemic ... couldnt be more timely, with thousands still dying daily. As he writes, "once covid is no longer an acute threat, dont forget about what it has done". -- Adam Vaughan * New Scientist *if this book stimulates even a little limit-pushing of the sort Mr Gates suggests, it will have served its purpose well. * Economist *His last book was about climate change, that other issue which, along with pandemics, he considers "existential" for mankind. ... Now, with the same can-do, roll-up-the-sleeves attitude, he lays out, step by step, the system that needs to be put in place to prevent another - potentially far more deadly - pandemic. -- Harry de Quetteville * Sunday Telegraph *Gates delivers a thoughtful exploration of how lessons learned from Covid-19 can inform future global public health policies. In accessible prose, he spells out steps for preventing future pandemics, among them creating a global task force dedicated to doing so . . . Gates is realistic about what hes up against . . . but he does a good job of making [the task forces] $1 billion price tag seem reasonable. -- Publishers WeeklyIn How to Prevent the Next Pandemic he applies his technocratic approach to preparing the world for future public health emergencies. That means building early warning systems that could identify novel illnesses when they first start to circulate in human populations; developing better treatment and vaccine technologies that can quickly tackle brand new pathogens; and optimising processes and building manufacturing facilities that could quickly mass-produce things like medicines and rapid tests in times of emergency. At the heart of Gatess plan is a new institution he calls Germ (Global Epidemic Response and Mobilisation), composed of a few thousand experts - from epidemiologists to vaccinologists to diplomats - who would be on standby in case of a global threat. In between emergencies, this group would go around the world to strengthen pandemic-prevention infrastructure and encourage governments to keep spending on things like disease-monitoring and scientific research. None of the ideas in the book are radical; indeed, scientists have been arguing for some version of all them for several decades. But, given who is making the recommendations, people with the power to make change might finally listen. -- Alok Jha * Guardian Books of the Year * Long Description Before Bill Gates became an expert on climate science, he was known as one of the few who studied pandemics - how they start, how they spread, how they can be controlled. He warned us years ago in a now-famous TED Talk of their arrival in our future. The future, of course, is now, and now is when we have to plan against a next one.HOW TO PREVENT THE NEXT PANDEMIC is a clear and upbeat plan of what every country, every government leader, and every individual can do in order to help prevent another pandemic, grounded in Bills firsthand experience with the Gates Foundations commitment to fighting Covid-19. Review Quote In this concise and lucid book, global health activist Gates reflects on the current COVID-19 pandemic, considers future ones, and renders several sensible recommendations for prevention . . . Passionate but never preachy, Gates delivers an expert, well-reasoned, and robust appeal for the world to unite in averting upcoming pandemics. Promotional "Headline" Coming in 2022 from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Details ISBN0241579600 Author Bill Gates Publisher Penguin UK Format Hardcover Year 2022 ISBN-13 9780241579602 Publication Date 2022-05-03 Imprint Allen Lane Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2022-05-03 NZ Release Date 2022-05-03 UK Release Date 2022-05-03 ISBN-10 0241579600 Pages 304 Narrator Geoffrey Beevers Illustrator Gladys Jose Birth 1927 Death 1855 Affiliation Clark University Position journalist Qualifications PhD Alternative 9780241586242 DEWEY 616.9045 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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