In this review, you can read about national and international best practices on how to work with historical experiences and use them to create learning among leaders and decision-makers, as well as which specific historical experiences would be useful to activate to put the learning from the COVID-19 crisis into perspective.

The following excerpts are from the review:

"The COVID-19 outbreak is the first sign that we have entered the "age of pandemics" with more and more regular epidemic outbreaks. This was predicted by two American epidemiologists Anthony S. Fauci and David Morens in September 2020 in a renowned medical journal.

The statement was subsequently quoted extensively in the press, and with good reason. One of the authors is the head of the US National Institutes of Health and a high-profile advisor to the US President, while the other is one of the country's leading epidemiologists and specializes in predicting trends using historical data on infectious diseases, population density, biodiversity and globalization.

Although such a partnership by no means guarantees that historical knowledge will make its way up the system, because the government in power at any given time also has to take the political situation into account, it is a textbook example of how historical experiences are nevertheless included and considered by health authorities and offered to policy makers."

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