What Can Public Health Administration Learn from the Decision-Making Processes during COVID-19?
Understanding decision-making processes in public health administration is the key to learning from the COVID-19 pandemic. While human-decision making has many strengths, COVID-19 exposed some of the ways in which the mental short cuts we use to make decisions yielded very poor results.
What is required in these situations is strong organisational policies and procedures to ensure there are decision-making processes in place to counter these biases.
Published by researchers from CSI Swinburne in the International Journal of Environmental and Public Health, this research paper:
- Explores how decision-making biases could have impacted on COVID-19 policy decisions, and;
- Provides recommendations for more effective organizational-level decision-making processes in public health administration