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.
"""Covid-19 will not be the last pandemic to cause havoc. Disease X sets out how a mystery pathogen of the future could be contained before it goes global, but only if lessons are learned from SARS-CoV-2 and other global disease threats. ""An engaging, accessible and ultimately optimistic account of how nations, institutions and the scientific community responded to Covid, and how they could work together in future."" - Fergus Walsh, BBC Medical Editor ""As Kelland argues cogently, fear of the next outbreak should not paralyse us but instead galvanise us into making sure the terrible toll of Covid-19 is not repeated. ""Just as we do not wait for a formal declaration of war before building up military capabilities, we must be prepared to invest in rapid surveillance, financing, vaccines, treatments and manufacturing capacity ahead of time. ""Disease X is a valuable policy roadmap in a world custom-built for pandemics."" - Anjana Ahuja, co-author with Jeremy Farrar of Spike: The Virus Vs The People ""Disease X delivers a sobering message. It also offers hope that when the next deadly virus with pandemic potential emerges - not if - the world will be much better equipped to respond. ""With access to key players on the frontlines, Disease X takes us inside the effort to prevent future outbreaks from exploding into global disasters. People remember wars. They forget about pandemics. ""Three years after the Covid crisis erupted, we're desperate to move on. But this important book outlines why it will be vital to keep pandemic threats at the top of our priority list for decades to come."" - James Paton, former Health Correspondent for Bloomberg News"