Pandemic Center
The Pandemic Center
Informing Action. Training Leaders. Preventing Catastrophe.
The Pandemic Center
Informing Action. Training Leaders. Preventing Catastrophe.
We are in an age of pandemic threats.
COVID-19, the most consequential pandemic in a century, is not our last. The Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health works to ensure that the world better understands these catastrophic threats, their far-reaching casualties, and develops the tools, policies, and practices to mitigate and prevent their impact. 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.
This Pandemic Center is working to stop pandemics, other biological emergencies, and the harms they pose to health, peace, security, and prosperity.
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.
Addressing these challenges demands inter-disciplinary approaches that bring together scholars and policy-makers from across multiple disciplines.
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.
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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Recent News
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Covid, flu, RSV declining in hospitals as ‘tripledemic’ threat fades
“As awful as omicron was, it left in its wake a tremendous amount of immunity,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown's School of Public Health.
Medical Xpress
Three years into Covid, are we ready for the next pandemic?
When it comes to deploying future vaccines, Jennifer Nuzzo, the founding director of the Pandemic Centre at Brown University, said "it's not the science that worries me as much: it's the production."
Jennifer Nuzzo — a professor of epidemiology and the director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health — told Truthout that, notwithstanding the risks inherent to congregate living settings, age has always been the biggest risk factor for severe illness and death from COVID.