Manuel Franco
Head of International Relations at the Spanish Society of Public Health and Healthcare Administration (SESPAS), organiser of the 2026 European Public Health Conference (EUPHA), Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) and professor and researcher at the universities of Alcalá and Johns Hopkins
This study is extremely interesting because of the key public health issues it addresses and because of the way in which it was carried out, with 386 experts from very different areas in 112 countries and territories recommending specific actions to put an end to the global danger posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The six domains highlighted by the results of this Delphi study to reach consensus are very interesting: communication; health systems; vaccination; prevention; treatment and care; and inequity.
It is very interesting to see the coincidences with other panels such as the Lancet panel or the ideas proposed by other Spanish researchers to evaluate the pandemic.
The Delphi methodology carried out is very complete and very well described. The implications are enormous for this and other future pandemics or serious public health problems.
SESPAS will be discussing several of these issues in a workshop we have proposed for the EUPHA conference in Berlin next week.