The COVID-19 Disruption and the Global Health Challenge

Vincenzo Atella is Professor of Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” where he teaches courses in Macroeconomics and Applied Health Economics at graduate and post graduate level. He is also adjunct associate of the Center for Health Policy at Stanford University where he has been visiting professor several times, Scientific Director of the Farmafactoring Foundation, and past President of the Italian Health Economic Association (AIES). He has coordinated several European projects and received financial support by the European Science Foundation. His research activity focuses on applied economics with special emphasis in the health care sector. The results of his research activity have been published on several international refereed journals as well books. Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo, Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, is Senior Fellow and Board Member of the Economics Foundation at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, President of the Italian Association of Development Economists, and of the Villa Mondragone Development Association, and Chairman of OpenEconomics, a university spin off focusing on cost benefit analysis and policy impact evaluation. He has widely published on a variety of topics on economic development. Formerly a holder of several academic and government positions, he is presently advising the World Bank and other international institutions on the evaluation of policies of sustainable development.

PART 1 How and why all this had an origin
1. The origins of infections
2. Meaning and dynamics of epidemics

PART 2 The COVID-19 crisis management: not an easy task!
3. How did we manage the COVID-19 pandemic?
4. How did we contain the virus: contact tracing, social distancing, and vaccines

PART 3 The impact of COVID-19 on the economic system
5. Trade-offs and political economy during pandemics
6. COVID-19 macroeconomics: are we using the right toolbox?
7. The effects on the economic systems
8. The effects on healthcare systems and health status

PART 4 The policy analysis
9. What did we learn after more than 6 million deaths?
10. Bioeconomy, biodiversity, and the human footprint

PART 5 The solutions
11. How to manage the risk of new pandemics
12. Epilogics 12. Epilog