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 Timeline
Part 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 Society
6. The Freedom to Fail
7. The Dead Hand of Care
Part 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. Conclusion
Postscript: Crisis in the UK 2022