Forbes February 28, 2021
The rapid pace of societal evolution in the Fourth Industrial Revolution is met by systemic challenges that accompany the changing face of healthcare – including evolving profiles of disease burden, rising costs of healthcare and resource scarcities that imperil the progress of global health security. These challenges have been aggravated manyfold by the Covid-19 pandemic, and must be met by solutions that appropriately consider the nuanced cultural, financial, and socio-political characteristics that influence population health. This inevitably requires a space for multidisciplinary dialogue and an openness to international solutions that can be retrofitted to the local context.
Traditionally, the Caribbean & continental Africa have turned to their larger Anglophone contemporaries – the United States & Great Britain – as the...