This book attempts to analyze the issues raised by the chronicity of the
Covid pandemic and its governance. The author analyzes the information
resources mobilized to combat the pandemic in industrialized countries
and pays particular attention to the operational mechanisms. The
analysis seeks to clarify the modalities of operation of the crisis
system management, while at the same time looking at the decision-making
mechanisms. The main lines of analysis retained are: the piloting and
management of the crisis, the markets for ordering protective equipment
and vaccine, the hospital organization and the prevention campaign, and
the costs and the methods of financing.
Finally, the author asks whether it might not therefore be appropriate
to rethink the organization of the pandemic's governance and if health
crisis governance should be opened up more to deal with societal
challenges. This organization is too complex and suffers both from a
certain heaviness and from a lack of resources, which are detrimental to
its proper functioning. It should first and foremost be open to people
in the field whose absence weighs heavily on the organization of the
response to the pandemic. It should also be open to other specialties,
even if they seem far removed from public health and medicine, if they
are useful to the government in guiding its actions.
Prof. Post-Dr. Walter Amedzro St-Hilaire is the author of more than
20 books and around 40 scientific articles. His specialization areas
include portfolio management, project management, entrepreneurship
policies, corporate and technology governance, business technology,
strategic management, business economics, risk management, economic
infrastructures, public administration, international development, and
applied economics. He has taught at various universities in Canada and
the USA. He has served as Chief Resources Economist and Principal
Officer of Procurement Operations for UEB United European Bank and as a
Technical Advisor on Economic Strategies and Policy Development for the
World Bank. He is also a project economics and financial business expert
for several institutions and international organizations.
