Reflections from the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: lessons for global health.

SUMMARY: - Trust is crucial to handling any global health crisis; the expertise and sustainability of National Public Health Institutions is the basis for trust building.

- Public health requires citizens to make the right individual choices that have a positive domino effect on the general population. Communication, therefore, plays an essential role.

- Public health systems must be strengthened and stronger public health systems must assist weaker ones in an act of global solidarity.

- Digitalising healthcare and public health will play a fundamental role in strengthening public health systems and thus in handling future crises.