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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Recent News

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New York Times

Large Ebola Outbreak is Declared in Congo

Africa’s leading public health authority said on Friday that there was an outbreak of the Ebola virus in a province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, with dozens of deaths and hundreds of infections suspected.

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the public health agency of the African Union, said 65 deaths from Ebola had been reported in the northeastern province of Ituri, though only four had been definitively linked to the virus through laboratory testing. The agency said that 246 suspected infections had been reported in Ituri and that 13 had been confirmed.

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Healio

Inside the unit where US passengers are quarantined

Americans are currently quarantining at a federally funded facility in Nebraska for up 42 days.
No state or federal orders have been given to keep them from leaving the facility to quarantine somewhere else.
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Patch News

Andes Hantavirus: What You Should And Should Not Worry About

Given the enormous toll of the COVID-19 pandemic — responsible for more than 1.2 million U.S. deaths and a complete upheaval of Americans’ lives — infectious disease experts aren’t surprised hantavirus outbreak on an international cruise ship stoked fear.

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Biosecurity Game Changers Fellowship

Through the Fellowship, next-generation biosecurity leaders acquire the tools to be decision-makers while working with 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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