This publication was developed through a multinational collaboration between the Australian Civil-Military Centre, the Centre for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies and Massey University. The Australian Civil-Military Centre (ACMC) would like to acknowledge the Lead Investigator Emily Chapman and the research contributors; Alexandra Nylen, Ahad Bashir, Kethurak Manokram, David Polatty, Adam Levine, Anna Powell, Jim Rolf.
As the project summary, this document provides readers with novel factors that were found to influence coordination during COVID-19 responses, effective coordination practices from each nation, and recommendations for future public health emergencies. Despite identifying some novel factors, overall, this study found that coordination during national responses to COVID-19 shares more similarities than differences with geographic or sector bounded crisis responses