Our global public health system is only as good as its weakest link

Audette Exel is the founder of Adara Group, a hybrid of corporate advice and international development. She shares her outlook for the world in AFR Magazine's Rethink special in the June issue.

Audette Exel: We find ourselves in a world not just with enormous wealth and income inequality, but with even greater disparities in access to healthcare.

Audette Exel

May 25, 2020 – 10.22am

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I have always thought that if there is a god, she must have a deep sense of irony.

COVID-19 showcases that. We know that as individuals we must “shelter in place” and step back to keep ourselves safe. Yet at the same time, we as a community need to step forward to keep others safe, including people who we do not know and may never meet. Science tells us that. Economics tell us that. And values, ethics and morality tell us that.