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.

New Initiative to Strengthen Global Disease Surveillance

Climate change alters how infectious disease threats spread. Thanks to a new grant from Wellcome, we're kicking off a new initiative to expand our work on strengthening global surveillance and the effectiveness of data-sharing to improve countries’ capacities to gain advance warning of emerging disease threats.

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First Human Bird Flu Death Of 2026 Recorded In Washington

A dairy farm worker in Yakima County, Washington, has died from bird flu, marking the first such fatality in the United States this year. The worker, who had underlying health conditions, contracted the virus from infected dairy cows, according to CNN. This is the third bird flu-related death in the U.S. since 2024, when the virus was first detected in dairy cattle.
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Brown Daily Herald

SPH Medicaid fellows program aims to help Rhode Islanders navigate changing regulations

On Oct. 1, newly imposed Medicaid legislation under H.R.1, commonly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, went into effect and Medicaid coverage for immigrants of various statuses was repealed across the country. A team of students from the School of Public Health are working to inform Rhode Islanders about the changes and help them navigate new regulations.
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Listening to Shadows

Listening to Shadows is a new audio documentary telling the extraordinary story of Wilmot James, now a Senior Adviser to the Pandemic Center and a former South African Member of Parliament and Shadow Minister of Health, as he rose from the power struggles in South Africa to the front lines of global health leadership.

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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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