Brendan Shaw "We are trying to reassure people that removing all of the lavatory paper from the shelves of supermarkets probably isn't a proportionate or sensible thing to do at this time." - Dr Brendan Murphy, Australian Government Chief Medical Officer, March 2020 “I get up And nothin' gets me down You got it tough I've seen the toughest around And I know baby just how you feel You got to roll with the punches and get to what's real” - Van Halen, Jump, 1983 I

Brendan Shaw “… governments need to be convinced that investing in public health systems is absolutely necessary despite the multitude of competing demands for scarce budget resources. The current under-preparedness of many countries indicates that this case has not been convincingly made.” - World Bank. 2017. From Panic and Neglect to Investing in Health Security: Financing Preparedness at a National Level, p. 6. Imagine a world political leader, a president or prime ministe

Brendan Shaw Blog published on Medium on 22 June 2020 can be found here. #COVID-19 #health #technology #resilience #funding

Article published in Pharma Times on 15 May 2020 about our failure to adequately fund our health systems to maintain resilience after the Global Financial Crisis and demonstrated by the COVID-19 outbreak. You can read the article here. #COVID-19 #resilience #economics #healthsystems #SDGs

“Global capitalism will have to be re-balanced. The pre-COVID balance between efficiency and resilience will have to tilt on the side of resilience.” - Pascal Lamy, former Director General of the World Trade Organization, 2020 “… the notions of viability and resilience … are in conflict with short-term profitability and apparent efficiency.” - Hynes et al., 2020, A Systemic Approach to Dealing with COVID-19 and Future Shocks, OECD. “We should have learned the lesson of resili