Disease X: The 100 Days Mission to End Pandemics

by Kate Kelland, Tony Blair (Foreword by)

Overview

A pacy, real-life page-turner by Reuters journalist on the global 100-days mission to identify and catch the next virus outbreak, codenamed DISEASE X, before it spreads worldwide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912454976
Publisher:	Canbury Press
Publication date:	02/15/2024
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Kate Kelland is an award-winning global health correspondent formerly at Reuters. She is now chief scientific writer at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations in London. During 30 years in journalism, she set the agenda in global health and science coverage. In 2017, she won the London Foreign Press Association Science Story of the Year award for her investigative reporting on the International Agency for Research on Cancer. In 2016, she won the Medical Journalists Association's Feature of the Year award for a piece on the critical challenge facing the WHO - to heal itself. She was UK winner of the European Health Prize for Journalists in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

Tony Blair is Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and leader of the Labour Party between 1994 and 2007. He led the Labour Party to three consecutive general election victories, in 1997, 2001 and 2005, becoming the longest-serving prime minister in modern times after Margaret Thatcher. The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change aims to equip political leaders worldwide to build prosperous, open and inclusive societies.