Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on Systemic Risk and Resilience in the Time of COVID-19

Abstract

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has had sweeping consequences upon global societies, public health, and economies. It stubbornly persisted and spread throughout 2020, despite a range of policy and social response strategies from frontline global public health institutions and countries alike. Consequences of such policy responses will persist for years and even decades, reshaping both government practices and social behaviors. The responses and impacts from COVID will shape and influence the global order for collective responses to everything from public health issues to climate change. However, questions abound regarding how the public and private sectors might best anticipate similarly situated systemic risks and position society to better recover from and adapt to the “new normal” associated with rapid global change.