Personal Narrative: Enhancing Global Health Security

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"How can I enhance global health security?" This is my lifelong theme. I will bring positive change for the world security by minimizing global pandemic impacts with my leadership: starting concrete actions involving others.

In today's interconnected world, the global infectious disease crisis, such as Ebola and MERS, has been a key foreign and security concern. When an affected country's capacity is overwhelmed, the world needs to surge to support the progress with whole-of-government assets because its wide spread disturbs socioeconomic activities, hinders government functions and devastates countries worldwide. There are two key lessons from the Ebola crisis: the need of a strong and organized global response including military and an authoritative …show more content…
To fight against Ebola, while I, as a project leader, dispatched the public health emergency experts to West Africa, the military commitment was required to secure medevac for the experts and expand the response capacity on the ground. Although, MOD and JSDF were reluctant because of their priority, homeland defense, I continued the discussion within the government about creating medevac, sending troops and strengthening JSDF's capacity for outbreaks, insisting "This is the responsibility of an independent state and a member of the international society!" Finally, my persistent negotiation over three months changed their mindset. We cooperatively set up the new medevac system and the JSDF's new strategy of human resource development and overseas operation for future pandemics. Despite the success with my leadership, a fundamental change in the government-wide crisis response mechanism is needed for JSDF's continual commitment in global health security. To achieve this, I will develop the global health security landscape, which covers from bioterrorism to pandemic and illustrates where JSDF should be involved. This will be the key for explicitly integrating global health security into JSDF's core function in Japan's National Security Strategy. With this, I will establish the sustainable synergetic response with MOD and
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