Introduction

Good public health generates multiple benefits for a nation’s security, stability, economic well-being and relations with other countries. The public health principles of prevention, protection, accountability and equity have broad political, economic and social power. Resilient public health emerges from embedding health in all policies. Resilient public health supports strong national health systems, primary health care strategies and effective international and global cooperation on transnational health threats. Resilient public health is simply an integral part of good governance, whatever the political context.