Author: Dr. Sok Touch, MBDS Regional Moderator, Cambodia

Community Resilience to Emerging Infectious Diseases as part of local disaster risk reduction in Cambodia

Emerging diseases pose a most challenging threat to both the health system in the affected countries and the community at large especially when pandemic becomes a disaster. To cope with this situation, health and community system need to be reoriented to deal with a specific situation while being better prepared for similar threats or foreseeable conditions in the future.