Richard Skolnik, lecturer for Yale's Essentials of Global Health course on Coursera, surveys the state of global health after the COVID-19 pandemic and argues for specific strategies to address the problems it exposed. Running about 34 minutes as lecture 34 in the series, the talk covers gaps in pandemic preparedness, the strain on health systems, persistent inequities in access to care, and the financing shortfalls that limit progress on chronic and infectious disease alike. Skolnik draws on data from 2021 and 2022 to frame where global health stood before COVID and where it stands now, pointing to workforce shortages and weak surveillance systems as recurring failure points. He closes by laying out actionable priorities for students and practitioners, from strengthening primary care to improving international coordination, treating the pandemic as a stress test that revealed where the field must invest next.