Where to after COVID-19?
- Author(s)
- Maru Mormina, Bernhard Müller, Guido Caniglia, Eivind Engebretsen, Henriette Löffler-Stastka, James Marcum, Mathew Mercuri, Elisabeth Paul, Holger Pfaff, Federica Russo, Joachim Sturmberg, Felix Tretter, Wolfram Weckwerth
- Abstract
Whilst policymaking will always remain a highly political process, especially amidst crises, evidence-based pandemic management can benefit from adopting a socioecological perspective that integrates multi- and trans-disciplinary insights: from biology, biomedicine, mathematics, statistics, social and behavioural sciences, as well as the perspectives and experiences of non-scientific stakeholders. We make a case for an “integrated inter- and transdisciplinarity” that overcomes the typical additive nature of current interdisciplinary work and better captures the inherent complexity of public health and other public policy problems. We propose systems science and systems thinking approaches as a useful meta-theoretical, self-reflecting approach for such integration to take place. Enabled by systems thinking, the praxis of “integrated inter- and transdisciplinarity” allows for an understanding of public health crises in a human-centred socio-ecological perspective. This grounds more holistic policy responses, which by mobilising the whole of government and whole of society, put individuals, groups, governments and society at large in critical dialogue to co-produce and co-design interventions that address crises in all their physical, social, psychological, economic and political dimensions.
- Organisation(s)
- Functional and Evolutionary Ecology
- External organisation(s)
- European University Institute (EUI), Monash University, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, University of Oslo, Medizinische Universität Wien, Baylor University, McMaster University, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Universität zu Köln, University of Amsterdam (UvA), University of Newcastle, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science
- Journal
- Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
- Volume
- 11
- ISSN
- 2662-9992
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03246-4
- Publication date
- 12-2024
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 303012 Health sciences
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Business, Management and Accounting(all), Arts and Humanities(all), Social Sciences(all), Psychology(all), Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/where-to-after-covid19(35a0e62f-e239-4ccd-b5da-2973b64db4b6).html