Planning for the Next Pandemic Threat: Defining the Federal Role in Public Health Emergencies
to appear in IRPP Policy Matters, Volume 6 Number 5Kumanan Wilson and Harvey Lazar
Published: November 2005
Keywords: pandemic, SARS, federal, government, emergency, national, health, Infectious Diseases and Pandemics
Abstract:
In this study, Kumanan Wilson, MD, and Harvey Lazar argue that some of the emergency response problems that were highlighted in the reports examining the SARS outbreak remain unresolved. In particular, there are important limitations in the current federal legislative framework to address emergencies,which impede the federal government's ability to act at the early stage of an outbreak. They argue that legislative reform to provide the federal government with the freedom to act on an outbreak that is initially within the confines of only one province but is potentially of national concern should be a priority.
Disciplines: Governance
Publication: IRPP---Policy-Matters.pdf