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Brendan Shaw

Back to the Future? Global Pandemic Treaty Negotiations Rumble On

Brendan Shaw Article "Back to the Future? Global Pandemic Treaty Negotiations Rumble On" published in PharmaBoardroom on 18 July 2023 can...

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As easy as riding a bike?: Work-life balance in the 21st century

Brendan Shaw "What about me? It isn't fair I've had enough, now I want my share Can't you see, I wanna live But you just take more than...

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Unconscious uncoupling?: Three years on Covid-19 is no longer a global emergency

Brendan Shaw " I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern." - Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,...

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Exonerated!: Rats not to blame for the 14th century Black Death

Brendan Shaw “ .. the Porters who opened the infected Bales of Goods in the Lazaretto's [sic] of Marseilles, died upon the first...

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Lessons learned: finance and resilience in post-COVID health systems

Brendan Shaw “If you staff at maximum capacity, well, then you have to price and cost for maximum capacity at all times. But then do you...

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Decoupling, deglobalisation and the price of lettuce: be careful what you wish for

Brendan Shaw “The failures of globalisation are not inevitable” - Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents Revisited,...

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Workers of the world resign!: What if post-pandemic staff refuse to return to the office?

Brendan Shaw "Natural ragione è di ciascuno che ci nasce, la sua vita, quanto può, aiutare e conservare e difendere (Every person born...

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Influenza pandemics then and now - the 100th anniversary of the Spanish Flu pandemic

As the First World War was grinding to its end in 1918, reports started to emerge of an infectious disease in the trenches, army barracks...