Exploring types of leadership in the delivery of global health services: Last year is etched in our minds as one where the world came to a standstill. The coronavirus, initially contained in certain parts of East Asia, rapidly spread across the globe. Even when the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19 had attained the status of a pandemic, few countries gave it the attention it warranted. As a result, what started as mild skepticism turned to panic and fear as COVID-19 brought countries to their break points. At the time, the prevailing wisdom was that having faced Ebola, SARs and other communicable diseases in the past, the world was already adequately equipped to tackle this pandemic. Yet, as the weeks passed with more and more massive death tolls, it became increasingly clear that the world is not ready and prepared to deal with this pandemic.
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