31/03/21
COVID-19 pandemic: a unique opportunity to ‘build back fairer’ and reduce health inequities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region - EMHJ Ahmed Al-Mandhari, Michael Marmot, Abdul Ghaffar, Rana Hajjeh, Jessica Allen, Wasiq Khan and Maha El-Adawy

This editorial, published in the Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, discusses the work of the WHO/EMRO commission on the Social Determinants of Health, in the context of the Covid 19 pandemic.

It argues that the whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches that have been necessary to contain the pandemic should continue into plans for recovery, and building back better and fairer in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.

Read the full editorial (PDF)