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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Recent News

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Daily Maverick

Peace-driven science rises from the ashes of apartheid-era bioterrorism

With Project Coast’s records destroyed or missing, researchers estimate that its lead officer, Wouter Basson, led a team of about 20 scientists and 145 employees at the height of its operations. He recruited and carefully selected his science team largely from Afrikaans-language universities, was a persuasive and skilled manager, and put allegiance to a racial killing programme ahead of his ethical obligations as a physician.

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The New York Sun

Congo’s Former President, Sentenced to Death for Backing Rebels, Now Leads Them Toward Key Border City

Heavy weapons boomed across the hills above Uvira this week as rebel fighters picked their way along the ridgelines, skirting the Congolese troops and militiamen dug in along the Ruzizi River road below. Phone networks still cut out, though shops and markets in town remain open. Civic leaders in the lakeside city on Congo’s border with Burundi called a “dead city” shutdown for Friday to protest the war. The mayor’s office banned it.
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The Telegraph

Trump administration loses grip on bird flu, experts warn

Trump administration loses grip on bird flu, experts warn Disease is spreading among mink and cattle in a ‘completely preventable’ outbreak
The Trump administration has been criticised for losing control of a bird flu outbreak that has spread among mink and cattle farms across the United States.
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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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