Pandemic Center

The Pandemic Center

The Pandemic Center

Informing Action. Training Leaders. Increasing Resilience.

We are in an age of pandemic threats.

COVID-19, the most consequential pandemic in a century, is not our last. The Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health works to reduce vulnerabilities and increase resilience to pandemics, other biological emergencies, and the harms they pose to health, peace, security, and prosperity. The Pandemic Center is an independent and credible voice for positive disruption.

This Pandemic Center is uniquely positioned to work across disciplines and sectors to generate and analyze evidence, educate a new generation of leaders, and ensure this work is translated to effective policy and practice around the globe.

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A school transformed

Over the past five years, the Brown University School of Public Health has undergone a profound transformation, evolving into one of the nation’s most impactful public health institutions. During the tenure of Dean Ashish K. Jha, the school navigated unprecedented times in public health and higher education, emerging more inclusive, more interdisciplinary and deeply prepared for the challenges ahead.
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The top US health director who stood up for science — and was fired


When Susan Monarez was sworn in to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the country’s premier public-health agency, many researchers across the country breathed a sigh of relief.

Trained as a microbiologist and immunologist, Monarez had been a non-partisan government scientist for nearly 20 years. She was an unexpectedly uncontroversial choice by US President Donald Trump, who had previously put forward (but later withdrew the nomination for) Dave Weldon, a physician and vaccine sceptic who worked as a Republican member of Congress from 1995 to 2009.

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For the first time, skeptics of mainstream medicine are running the country. What comes next?

For the first time, skeptics of mainstream medicine are running the country. What comes next?

Dr. Brian Chow, an infectious disease specialist, is among the most qualified people in the country to speak about the importance of hepatitis B vaccinations.

He received advanced training at Brown University and was an attending physician at Tufts Medical Center. While there, he witnessed a young patient die of liver cancer that stemmed from a hepatitis B infection, a death that could have been prevented had the man received a common vaccine for the disease as a baby.
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Biosecurity Game Changers Fellowship

Next generation leaders chosen to be biosecurity game changers, serve in key global organizations to shape the future of the field.

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Evidence to Drive Decision-Making

We are responding to the need to generate, synthesize and translate evidence to better define the most effective policies, practices, and resources to prepare for future infectious disease emergencies and confront the current crisis.
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Creating and Impacting Leaders

The Center is dedicated to cross-training a new generation of diverse pandemic leaders and equipping them with the skills and knowledge they need to make change in the world.
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Maximum Impact to Prevent, Detect, and Change Pandemic Outcomes

Engaging with governments, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations and media across the globe, the Pandemic Center works to advance evidence-based policies and practices to save lives, improve quality of life and equity and avert existential biological risks.
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Pandemic Center Offices

Providence

Brown University School of Public Health

121 S. Main Street, Providence, RI 02903

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Washington, D.C.

National Press Building

1320 F St NW, Washington, DC 20045

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