South Korea had administered more COVID-19 vaccine doses per 100 people than other developed countries by the end of March 2022. A new article published in OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology presents six pivotal lessons learned from South Korea’s whole-of-government approach to successful COVID-19 vaccine roll out.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored that systems medicine depends on health systems and services that can respond to planetary health threats in scale and with speed,” states author Shin Ae Hong, Ph.D., from Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. Dr. Hong provides an overview of Korea’s pandemic response and identifies and provides a detailed description of six factors that account for Korea’s robust national vaccination initiative: governance system; logistic capability; delivery strategy and accessibility; public health infrastructure; risk communication; and public cooperation and engagement.

“The lessons from South Korea can help cultivate planetary health action in other parts of the world during the current COVID-19 pandemic, and in ecological crises in the future,” says Dr. Hong.

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