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.

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.

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The Telegraph

Africa improves health defences, but it remains vulnerable to pandemics

Africa is significantly better prepared for a pandemic than it was five years ago, a major review of the continent’s health security has found.

The review, which tracked dozens of health metrics across the continent, found that local and international investments in Africa’s health sector since the pandemic have “paid off.”

Published by the Brown University Pandemic Centre and the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a US non-profit, the report is the third of its kind and provides an update on two previous reviews from 2019 and 2021.
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New York Times

Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane

The United States has now recorded more cases of measles in 2026 than in any other year since the virus was declared eliminated in 2000, a grim sign that the country may be headed toward a new era in which the disease regularly sickens thousands every year.

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Nature | Africa

Africa’s pandemic preparedness improves, but safety gaps remain

A new Africa-specific health security index finds strong gains in laboratories and disease surveillance since 2021, but biosecurity, biosafety and systems for delivering vaccines and treatments continue to lag.

African countries have spent the past five years building laboratories, expanding disease surveillance and improving outbreak detection. Now, the continent’s first health security assessment cautions that the next stage of preparedness will depend on making those investments safer, better connected and more resilient.
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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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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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