ABSTRACT
Good public policy is paramount to maintaining respect for social service delivery based on science and good management practices suggested by systems analysis. Promoting public good ideals is not easy when disasters strike and force people to worry more about themselves than the community. Still, public-private and social enterprises can learn to support each other in providing service. To do so requires the polity to redesign public policies and institutions to address the needs of individuals, communities, and nations. Following COVID-19 lockdowns, nations will have to reengage with the outside world of WHO, WTO, ILO, UN, and other agencies, which cover tourism, vaccination certification, and pharmaceutical patent agreements. During the pandemic, many governments were caught off-guard, failing to forge logical responses to COVID-19 and communicate them quickly. Public administration had to ramp up service delivery and allocate funding. Societies should do better than simply providing ad hoc measures if they value effective public policy, and build on a history of past successful experiences that address national emergencies. This chapter examines these issues through the lens of a world viewpoint.
