[Media Watch] The social and political drivers behind pandemics

The global awareness of pandemics has been higher than ever in recent years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but what set of factors allows pandemics to develop in the first place? Tyler B Evans seeks to answer this question in his book Pandemics, Poverty, and Politics: Decoding the Social and Political Drivers of Pandemics from Plague to COVID-19, by using his experiences of a life spent in public health across the globe to analyse the underlying social and structural systems that lead to pandemics.