A healthcare system that is preventative, collective and inclusive is far more resilient, and cheaper to run, than private for-profit schemes.  Such a preventative system will be much cheaper to invest in building now than waiting to repair our current frameworks after the next pandemic. However, we need a financial plan that is able to ensure this change The Tao of Finance initiative from the World Academy of Arts and Sciences proposes a new mode of finance to fund the WHO, delivering adaptive and targeted funding to the health care needed for today and tomorrow.Read more about the Tao of Finance at the WAAS website, or read the books ‘Financing Our Future' and 'Financing our Anthropocene'