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The Pandemic Center partnered with the Private Sector Roundtable on Global Health Security, convening 20 senior business executives and leaders from across the country to discuss lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and pragmatic, replicable models to safeguard employees and boost state and local response to major health emergencies.

Businesses are essential partners in protecting public health and economic stability during crises, as demonstrated by a national initiative that united U.S. business leaders to share lessons from COVID-19 and develop practical models for future emergency response. 

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Are you interested in or working on projects that address the local, national or global challenges of pandemics? Are you looking to meet others on campus who are committed to understanding, preventing, and managing the impacts of pandemics—whether through research, policy, healthcare, or community-based solutions? Curious about biosecurity or biosafety?

On Wednesday, April 2, the School of Public Health’s Pandemic Center hosted a Pandemics and Biosecurity Interest Group coffee meet-up to:

• Provide an opportunity to network with like-minded individuals and groups across campus

• Share insights on pandemic and biosecurity-related work happening at the University

• Foster potential research and grant-writing collaborations

• Explore interest in building a collaborative space for exchanging ideas, sharing resources, and developing actionable strategies against pandemics and biosecurity threats

If you attended or are interested in working with the Pandemic Center in the future, please fill out this form.

About the Presidential Faculty Award Lecture
The Presidential Faculty Award was established by President Christina H. Paxson in Spring 2013 to recognize members of Brown’s distinguished faculty who are conducting especially important and innovative scholarship. The 2025 Presidential Faculty Award Lecture  “Pandemic-Proofing the Future,” featured Jennifer Nuzzo, professor of epidemiology and director of the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health.

About the Lecture
In this talk, Jennifer Nuzzo will discuss how we can prevent, reduce vulnerabilities, and increase resilience to pandemics and other biological emergencies, and the harms they pose to health, security, and prosperity.

Read more about this even here

 We will update again when a video of the event is available
 

This event was on March 5, 2025 as a panel discussion moderated by Director of the Pandemic Center, Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, S.M.

This discussion featured expert panelists reflecting on the valuable lessons learned and progress made since COVID-19 was characterized as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization and ask: What have we learned, what have we done, and how should we continue preparing for the next global pandemic?

Panelists:

• Adam Levine, Associate Dean of Biology and Medicine, Director of the Center for Global Health Equity, Professor of Emergency Medicine
• Theresa Raimondo, Assistant Professor of Engineering
• Scott Rivkees, Associate Dean for Education in the School of Public Health, Professor of the Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice
• Larry Warner, Chief Impact and Equity Officer at United Way of Rhode Island, President of the Rhode Island Public Health Association, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice

This was an in-person event.

Brown Daily Herald wrote an article on this event that can be read here