What is the project about?
There are five main goals of this interdisciplinary project, that brings together comparative public policy and medicinal chemistry:
There are five main goals of this interdisciplinary project, that brings together comparative public policy and medicinal chemistry:
o Contextualize what governments have done during the Covid-19 crisis given dynamics surrounding viruses, proposed vaccines, and antiviral therapies,
o Contextualize what governments have done during the Covid-19 crisis given dynamics surrounding viruses, proposed vaccines, and antiviral therapies,
o Offer a typology to better conceptualize the four phases of a pandemic, that serves as a blueprint for countries developing public policies particularly when there is no rapid scientific solution with a vaccine or antiviral.
o Offer a typology to better conceptualize the four phases of a pandemic, that serves as a blueprint for countries developing public policies particularly when there is no rapid scientific solution with a vaccine or antiviral.
o Use this typology as a theoretical foundation to comparatively examine global reactions during the different phases, analyzing key countries: the US, UK, Canada, Spain, Ireland, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and Chile. As the typology also incorporates a ‘feed-back’ mechanism, it can also account for a ‘second-wave’ of the virus.
o Use this typology as a theoretical foundation to comparatively examine global reactions during the different phases, analyzing key countries: the US, UK, Canada, Spain, Ireland, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and Chile. As the typology also incorporates a ‘feed-back’ mechanism, it can also account for a ‘second-wave’ of the virus.
o Trace the path for finding antiviral therapies and/or vaccine solutions right from the start of the phases in the typology.
o Trace the path for finding antiviral therapies and/or vaccine solutions right from the start of the phases in the typology.
o Develop policy lessons based on our comparative examination, serving as a guide of what to do, and what not to do, for present and future governments globally. This is significant given not only the number who are dying from Covid-19, but also the certainty that future pandemics will likely emerge.
o Develop policy lessons based on our comparative examination, serving as a guide of what to do, and what not to do, for present and future governments globally. This is significant given not only the number who are dying from Covid-19, but also the certainty that future pandemics will likely emerge.