The Tracking Report delivers expert analysis of infectious disease outbreaks worldwide. It fills a critical gap by turning complex global health data into a clear, centralized resource. Each week, the team distills key developments and explains why they matter, making it the Center’s leading public-facing research effort.

There is a global need and opportunity to implement and scale effective early warning systems (EWS) to rapidly detect future outbreaks of infectious diseases with epidemic or pandemic potential. A crucial first step in this process is establishing a strong knowledge base to build upon.

American democracy and health security are inextricable: American health security depends on the ability to simultaneously live in a free society and manage a public health emergency. Likewise, the health of American democracy depends on citizens’ faith in institutions — schools, workplaces, and government — to protect them in a crisis.

Outbreak Observatory serves as a platform for generating evidence and sharing data and information related to ongoing and emerging infectious disease health security threats.

Next-generation health security leaders must be globally connected and able to envision, prepare for, and prevent worst-case biological scenarios. They need to quickly recognize, halt, and mitigate large-scale crises—seeing beyond surface-level threats and using strategic foresight to stay ahead of emerging risks

Advancing the 100 Days Mission for Diagnostics: 2025 Global Gap Assessment – a new action map from the Pandemic Center, the International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat, and FIND

The G20 High Level Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response. The Pandemic Center is leading the way, in partnership with HLIP and the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM), to support new, bold, and operational health security financing solutions in an era of waning foreign aid.

No country is fully prepared for future pandemic or epidemic threats, and African nations face unique challenges and opportunities in building resilient health systems, sustaining investments and core capacities, and strengthening health security governance.

Wastewater surveillance is a proven early warning system used in the U.S. to detect viruses like SARS-CoV-2, bird flu, and mpox. A central organization tracks its applications, monitors funding and policy trends, and creates playbooks to maximize its effectiveness against biological threats.

Americans spend 90% of their time indoors, yet most buildings aren't designed for health. There are no national indoor air quality standards. Cleaner air could cut respiratory disease by 80%, reduce student absences by 13%, and boost workplace productivity by 11%. Health-based standards and interventions are urgently needed. The Clean Indoor Air Initiative launched in 2024 to advance action on this topic.

The Storied Health Film and Media Series is an integrated media experience that highlights the importance of collective health and ways to strengthen it. Through screenings, conversations, and hands-on workshops, the series demonstrates how storytelling can serve as a public health tool. It is curated by Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo and epidemiologist–filmmaker Dr. Jennifer Galvin ’95.

The Testing Playbook provides US federal, state, and local decision-makers with a clear, evidence-based guide for rapid, effective diagnostic testing in infectious disease emergencies. Informed by 37 public health leaders, it was developed collaboratively by experts at the Pandemic Center, ASU, Illumina Ventures, APHL, and the STAT Public Health Network, with funding from the Peterson Foundation.