Description: "This book explores how social, political, and economic factors drive global health crises, using pandemic case studies to reveal how inequities and weak health systems increase vulnerability"--
Brief description: David Mabey is the past President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine Hygiene, a physician in infectious and tropical diseases, and the current chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group of the WHO Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases. He was appointed the Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2014 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for services to health development in Asia and Africa.