Health in a Post-COVID World

Sebastian Taylor leads the global programme at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health. He is an advisor to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and served as Senior Research Fellow on the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. He works with governments, UN agencies, international and local NGOs on health systems strengthening in India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Nepal, Afghanistan and Laos, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sierra Leone amongst other countries. He led intervention in conflict-affected and post-conflict countries, from clearing landmines to advocacy on international humanitarian law, and has taught international health and development at undergraduate and graduate levels.

• Prologue: Health and civilisation Crisis: A TimelinePart 1: Growth 1. Growth, Wealth and Health 2. Health and Trade 3. 'They Go on Because They Have Begun'Part 2: Freedom 4. The Nature of Freedom 5. The Vaccine Society6. The Freedom to Fail 7. The Dead Hand of CarePart 3: Justice 8. The Poverty of Justice 9. Just Health, Just Care 10. A Kingdom of Ends Part 4: Security 11. War and Peace 12. The Risk Society Part 5: Democracy 13. One for All Part 6: Truth 14. Who Counts?15. ConclusionPostscript: Crisis in the UK 2022