Trust, Transparency and Transnational Lessons from COVID-19

The article engages in an exercise reflexivity around trust and the COVID-19 pandemic. Common understandings of are mapped out across disciplinary boundaries discussed cognitive fields medical social sciences. While contexts matter terms uses made concepts such as transparency, comparison academic disciplines experiences drawn from country allows general propositions to be formulated for further exploration. International health crises require efforts rebuild trust, understood a multidisciplinary sense relationship based on trusteeship, mutual obligations global commons, where is key public good. most effective responses pandemic joined up ones, individuals (responsible following guidelines) intermediaries (health professionals) receptive messages (nudges) relevant governmental authorities. Hence, distinction between hard soft science blurs when patients citizens required active participants combatting virus. Building diagnosis crisis (in field security multiple layers governance), renews with calls restore by enhancing transparency.