Jens Holst

A dangerous plague is sweeping the world. Global health experts and practitioners are utterly pre- occupied by the COVID-19 infection rapidly unfolding around the globe. The pandemic threatens people's health and evokes dramatic consequences in numerous countries. One could assume that the world's dependence on effective interventions to slow down the spread of COVID-19 would underpin and increase the importance of global health (Dalglish, 2020; Kickbusch et al., 2020; Pai, 2020). However, the crisis rather exhibits the existing challenges of global health, which can be seen as the consequent continuance of public health in today's globalised world. The long- term outcome of the COVID-19 crisis on humans' health and the effect on global health – as well as on public health – remain therefore uncertain. Instead of strengthening Global Health, the current handling of the pandemic worldwide may rather become more of a challenge for global health.

The paper is available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17441692.2020.1795222