{"id":181847,"date":"2024-02-01T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/what-is-disease-x-world-leaders-discuss-next-pandemic-risk"},"modified":"2024-02-01T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T20:25:09","slug":"what-is-disease-x-world-leaders-discuss-next-pandemic-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/what-is-disease-x-world-leaders-discuss-next-pandemic-risk","title":{"rendered":"What is \u2018Disease X\u2019? World leaders discuss next pandemic risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-is-disease-x-world-leaders-discuss-next-pandemic-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/who\" class=\"\">WHO<\/a>), will be joined by policymakers and members of the health industry to consider how to prepare for the emergence of an unknown pathogen.<\/p>\n<p>Michel Demar\u00e9, chair of the board of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, Brazilian health minister Nisia Trindade Lima and two other executives will also be on the panel, as will Shyam Bishen, a New York-based healthcare executive and member of the WEF\u2019s executive committee.<\/p>\n<p>He told CNBC on Monday that the forum had calculated that preparing the global health system for another pandemic would require \u201cclose to a trillion dollars,\u201d describing the topic as a \u201cbig question.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), will be joined by policymakers and members of the health industry to consider how to prepare for the emergence of an unknown pathogen. Michel Demar\u00e9, chair of the board of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, Brazilian health minister Nisia Trindade Lima and two other executives will also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}