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.

A New Fellowship to Advance Global Biothreat Reduction

Reducing biological threats requires the empowerment of the next generation of biosecurity leaders. Our incoming cohort of Fellows have officially been placed across leading partner organizations. Backed by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, this initiative strengthens biosecurity expertise where it's needed most.

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Daily Maverick

Apartheid’s covert operation that built and dismantled SA’s biological weapons programme

The first of six parts on the biological programmes that went by the benign name of Project Coast – a covert endeavour representing some of the worst practices in building and dismantling a biological weapons capability responsibly. Profound lessons can be learnt about how to – and how not to – govern high-consequence programmes.
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CIDRAP

CDC adds 177 cases to US measles total but has yet to confirm deaths in Pennsylvania

With 177 new cases added today, the US measles count has climbed to 3,471, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in its weekly update has yet to acknowledge any of the four measles-related deaths recently reported by the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH), two in babies and two involving adults.
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Scientific American

This is what an out-of-control measles outbreak looks like

As Bangladesh faces a deadly measles outbreak, experts assess what it would take for the U.S. to reach similar levels

In Bangladesh, hospitals and community health workers are facing an unrelenting battle against measles. Despite increased vaccination rates, cases have surged into the deadliest outbreak the South Asian country has seen since 2005.

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Meeting the Moment: 25-26 Impact Report

The world faces historic public health challenges as funding cuts erode our ability to prevent, detect, and respond to serious disease threats. We are generating impactful data, advancing innovative policy, and educating the next generation of leaders to confront both predictable and unprecedented biosecurity challenges.

Learn more from this year's Impact Report

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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