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 is working to prevent, 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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The National News Desk

FDA refuses review of mRNA flu vaccine; move could chill other research, doctor says

(TNND) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is refusing to review Moderna’s application for approval of an mRNA-based flu vaccine, the latest step taken by the administration that might chill the use of the technology that was key to the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic.

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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2844769

Why It Is Unethical Not to Conduct Randomized Trials in Pregnancy

The Trump administration recently declared prenatal acetaminophen (paracetamol) exposure a cause of autism, misrepresenting scientific consensus and receiving swift criticism from experts and medical organizations. The administration’s choice to single out acetaminophen was surprising given the available data: several carefully designed studies, using large sibling cohorts from Norway, Sweden, and Japan, have investigated and disputed a potential acetaminophen-autism link.

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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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