Business Continuity and the Pandemic Threat

FOREWORD

In general, a foreword is usually written by one person. However, in the case of this book there are two contributors – one with expertise in epidemiology and the other in business continuity. To gain a good understanding of the potential effects that a pandemic can have on the global populations along with the inevitable knock-on effects on organisations, it is necessary to have an appreciation of what the pandemic threat actually is. It is therefore very fitting that Dr Tanya Melillo MD, Head of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Unit in Malta and Owen Gregory MSc BA (Hons) MBCI MBCS have each contributed towards this foreword.

PART 1:

I became acquainted with Robert Clark through a mutual colleague only recently and had not ...