The Covid-19 pandemic underscored the essential nature of public health to a high-functioning society across all realms: personal, governmental, and corporate. Corporations, specifically, experienced the significant business impact that a major public health event can have, having to manage workplaces from a health and safety perspective, address workforce disruption, deal with vacillating demand for goods and services, and manage the disruption of supply chains. Entire industries were disrupted disproportionately like the service and travel industries. In addition, corporations saw the disparate impact on their minority workers, bringing health inequities into sharp focus. These and other consequences demonstrated the drastic economic impact that public health occurrences can have on businesses and the communities in which they operate.
The pandemic also highlighted the persistent health inequities that permeate our health system: lack of access to routine care, lower rates of affordability, and worse health outcomes for both acute and chronic diseases. As a result, many companies in the private sector have increased their involvement in addressing complex public health challenges, are prioritizing health equity solutions, and are building out ways to be more resilient to future health challenges.
Although most companies suffered in some way due to the pandemic, those that were able to understand the scope of the challenge, quickly pivot, and continue to adaptively respond to the ever-changing COVID-19 environment proved themselves to be more resilient and thereby comparatively more successful than peers who were unable to do so. Moving forward, resilient organizations will be able to identify, respond to, and resolve challenges based on a wide variety of threats, and support sustainable, long-term wellbeing for their clients and employees.
How companies are addressing resilience is a critical foundation to the public health innovation landscape. In parallel, the public sector, historically responsible for the majority of public health practice, is also beginning a transformation based on increasing capabilities, leveraging data and analytics, and creating a more connected infrastructure. This has created opportunities for innovative collaborations between multiple ecosystem stakeholders, including public/private partnerships. Additionally, creating a fabric of trust and relationships between public and private organizations will support resilience activities and goals.
This call for submissions seeks out original articles describing innovations in public health practice and work focusing on health equity and resilience within the private sector. In addition, original research will explore innovations in public/private partnerships in public health, health equity, and public health resilience.
The Covid-19 pandemic underscored the essential nature of public health to a high-functioning society across all realms: personal, governmental, and corporate. Corporations, specifically, experienced the significant business impact that a major public health event can have, having to manage workplaces from a health and safety perspective, address workforce disruption, deal with vacillating demand for goods and services, and manage the disruption of supply chains. Entire industries were disrupted disproportionately like the service and travel industries. In addition, corporations saw the disparate impact on their minority workers, bringing health inequities into sharp focus. These and other consequences demonstrated the drastic economic impact that public health occurrences can have on businesses and the communities in which they operate.
The pandemic also highlighted the persistent health inequities that permeate our health system: lack of access to routine care, lower rates of affordability, and worse health outcomes for both acute and chronic diseases. As a result, many companies in the private sector have increased their involvement in addressing complex public health challenges, are prioritizing health equity solutions, and are building out ways to be more resilient to future health challenges.
Although most companies suffered in some way due to the pandemic, those that were able to understand the scope of the challenge, quickly pivot, and continue to adaptively respond to the ever-changing COVID-19 environment proved themselves to be more resilient and thereby comparatively more successful than peers who were unable to do so. Moving forward, resilient organizations will be able to identify, respond to, and resolve challenges based on a wide variety of threats, and support sustainable, long-term wellbeing for their clients and employees.
How companies are addressing resilience is a critical foundation to the public health innovation landscape. In parallel, the public sector, historically responsible for the majority of public health practice, is also beginning a transformation based on increasing capabilities, leveraging data and analytics, and creating a more connected infrastructure. This has created opportunities for innovative collaborations between multiple ecosystem stakeholders, including public/private partnerships. Additionally, creating a fabric of trust and relationships between public and private organizations will support resilience activities and goals.
This call for submissions seeks out original articles describing innovations in public health practice and work focusing on health equity and resilience within the private sector. In addition, original research will explore innovations in public/private partnerships in public health, health equity, and public health resilience.