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In June, 2019, delegates from more than 65 countries attended the first international Global Health Security conference in Sydney to debate how to strengthen global health security and contain epidemics at source.[1] The Sydney Statement[1] on global health security, announced as a "product of this conference", was presented in its final form on the first day of the conference with seven guiding principles, including reference to the values of "integrity of international norms, respect for human rights, and social justice...[and] transparent decision making". Global health security is an energising way of framing risk, of mobilising resources, increasing provision of development assistance for health,[2] and clarifying the international obligations of nation states. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses research conducted by David Heymann and colleagues on the Ebola epidemic and how it omitted the political and economic barriers to health security encountered by poor countries.