Leveraging collaboration between all partners to improve Canada’s pandemic preparedness

Pandemic preparedness cannot simply be reduced to the sum of the ecosystem’s various strengths.
Pandemic preparedness needs to evolve towards a culture of collaboration honed over time to facilitate an optimal and coordinated response to future pandemics and emerging health threats. COVID-19 taught the ecosystem to work together through crisis. We now have the opportunity to take it to the next level. Canada will be better prepared if its main academic and industrial actors work together, writes Yves Joanette and Arianne Trudeau.
MONTREAL—It is widely recognized that when the COVID-19 pandemic reached Canada in early 2020, academia, industry, not-for-profits, and governmental agencies alike were not prepared to react in a collaborative and syn...

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