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Governance of national public health agencies
Would pandemic responses be better directed from central government?
BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r234 (Published 05 February 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;388:r234
- Robert Dingwall, emeritus professor and consulting sociologist
- Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
- robert.dingwall{at}ntu.ac.uk
Rasanathan and colleagues set out an important agenda for discussion and reflection around the governance of national public health agencies.1 But it is missing two key components in relation to pandemic planning.
The first is that pandemics are …
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