1st Edition
Outsmarting the Next Pandemic What Covid-19 Can Teach Us
This book examines the role of law and policy in addressing the public health crisis of COVID-19 and offers reforms that could improve pandemic preparedness for future outbreaks.
Focusing on a number of countries most expected to provide agility and organization in their crisis response – the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and Taiwan – the book shows how failures in leadership from governments, executives, and institutions created a vacuum that was quickly filled by naysayers, conspiracy theorists, vaccine hucksters, and fake news generators. Through the key themes of healthcare, leadership, security, and education, the chapters address critical questions: Why have masks become such a polarizing force? How do you self-isolate if you don’t have a home? How should equitable triage models for overwhelmed frontline healthcare workers be developed? Can we utilize artificial intelligence to educate the public about manipulated information they access concerning the pandemic? The book was written during the pandemic and weaves in to each chapter vignettes with personal revelations from a broad range of countries, including some also grappling with poverty, war, natural disasters, or revolution.
It will appeal to academics, professionals, and policymakers interested in how law and health policy can converge on solutions for global infectious disease. It is suitable for use in upper-level courses.
Introduction
Elizabeth Kirley and Deborah Porter
Part I: Healthcare
Chapter 1- How Smart is COVID?
Elizabeth Kirley and Deborah Porter
Chapter 2- Nothing About Me Without Me: Rationing and End-of-Life Decision-Making During a Pandemic
Sharyn Milnes, Lisa Mitchell, Neil Orford, Deborah Porter, and Nicholas Simpson
Chapter 3- Decisions in the Maternity Unit: COntainment in Taiwan and Canada
Li-Yin Chien and Su-Chen Liao with Julie Doldersum
Part II: Leadership
Chapter 4: Designed for Disruption: Fractured Supply Chains and Politicised Global Trading
Stephen Wilks
Chapter 5- Leadership vacuum and mask deniers
Elizabeth Kirley and Marilyn McMahon
Chapter 6- Hard Lessons: Long-term Care Homes as Hot Spots in Australia
Joseph Ibrahim
Part III: Security
Chapter 7- Intellectual Property Protections for Vaccines and PPE
Ana Santos Rutschman
Chapter 8- How Do You Self-Isolate with Nowhere to Live?
Carolyn Whitzman
Chapter 9- From Crisis to Sanctuary: Prisoners in Peril During COVID
Michael A. Crystal, Jacob Medvedev, and Peter Ketcheson
Part IV: Education and Technology
Chapter 10- Will Going Online Save or Sink the Traditional University System?
William H. Dutton
Chapter 11- Chatbots can teach us to detect fake news during COVID
Jacky Visser and Elena Musi
Chapter 12- Technology’s Greatest Gift to the Voyeur: Webcams in the K-12 Classroom
David Guida
Conclusion: What COVID Can Teach
Elizabeth Kirley and Deborah Porter
Biography
Elizabeth Anne Kirley is a professor in the Master of Laws program at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto. She holds JD (Western), LLM (Osgoode), and PhD (Osgoode) degrees and is called to the Ontario Bar. Elizabeth has served as Assistant Crown Attorney, Children's lawyer, and criminal defense counsel. Her research involves reputational privacy, digital crime, and pandemic law.
Deborah Porter holds an LLB from the University of Western Australia and was previously a registered nurse. She is passionate about health law and was a lecturer in the School of Medicine and the School of Law, Deakin University. Deborah is Legal Educator in end-of-life communication for the iValidate program, Barwon Health, Australia.
