The Committee considers applications for awards for projects that drive change in climate policy and practice.

The Pandemic Center sat down with Mr. Ledesma to dive into the results of his recent paper on pandemic preparedness, its impact on mortality rates during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what it can tell decision makers.

The vast majority of countries that entered the COVID-19 pandemic with strong capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to disease threats achieved lower pandemic mortality rates than less prepared nations, according to a major new study published today in BMJ Global Health. The analysis was led by researchers from the Brown University School of Public Health's Pandemic Center, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).

Commentary piece by Pandemic Center Affiliate Dr. Craig Spencer.

This article includes commentary from Francesca Beaudoin, Director of the Long COVID Initiative at the Brown University School of Public Health and Pandemic Center affiliate.

To mark the anniversary of the onset of the 2022 outbreak, the Pandemic Center sat down with Dr. Philip Chan, MD, MS, to discuss the public health response, what we learned, and how we can better prepare for future emergencies.

Jennifer Nuzzo provides commentary in this article.

Center Director Jennifer Nuzzo provided commentary for this article.

Center Senior Advisor Wilmot James and Brown University School of Public Health's Andrew Iliff wrote this opinion piece on the Khartoum laboratory seizure and the biosecurity and biosafety lessons we can learn from it.

Faculty experts from Brown’s Pandemic Center, Jennifer Nuzzo, Beth Cameron, and Wilmot James, discussed efforts to prepare for the next infectious disease emergency at the School of Public Health’s 2023 Commencement Forum.

Jennifer Nuzzo is quoted in this article

Jennifer Nuzzo is quoted in this article.

Pandemic Center Affiliate Dr. Francesca Beaudoin is quoted in this article.

Jennifer Nuzzo is quoted in this article.

This article is about a study led by Wilmot James.

Jennifer Nuzzo was a guest on this episode of PBS NewsHour.

Pandemic Center Senior Advisor Beth Cameron is quoted in this article.

Jennifer Nuzzo was interviewed for this article.

Jennifer Nuzzo was the guest on this episode of the KQED Forum radio show.

Jennifer Nuzzo is quoted in this article.

Jennifer Nuzzo provided commentary for this article.

Pandemic Center Affiliate Dr. Alyssa Bilinski provided commentary for this article.

Pandemic Center Senior Advisor Wilmot James co-authored this opinion piece on South Africa's vaccine strategy.

Commentary from Center Director Jennifer Nuzzo on masking.

The Pandemic Center partnered with the Horizon Institute for Public Service to co-host the Game Changers Workshop for Biosecurity Policy, a three-day event in Washington, D.C. to help early- and mid-career professionals explore a career transition into the field of biosecurity policy.

Article detailing a grant from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation Pandemic Response Policy Fund awarded to four projects at the University, including to Center Director Jennifer Nuzzo and Senior Advisor Beth Cameron.

This article includes commentary from Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown.

This article includes commentary from Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown.

Director of the Pandemic Center Jennifer Nuzzo weighed in on international travel bans.

Humans are not easily infected YET - but the NEXT pandemic may just be a few mutations away.

You may have thought the question of masking was settled, or at least that we had all agreed to disagree, but no such luck.

Americans can achieve pandemic security through creative, pragmatic action that bridges political divides and provides community-focused options for public health protection. What’s needed is a concrete pathway for action that attracts support from Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and others.

Director of the Pandemic Center Jennifer Nuzzo offered commentary on zoonotic diseases.

This article includes commentary from Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown.

“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.

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.

"That's what's been most puzzling about China's approach to this virus," said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health, "because it's basically leaving wide open its biggest vulnerabilities."

In reality, lockdowns are "pause buttons," Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health, told Insider. "They're supposed to buy time to build up immunity in the population through vaccines," she said.

"I think it's a really worrisome situation looking to the weeks coming ahead," says Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist who runs the Pandemic Center at Brown University. Nuzzo's worried because an exhausted nation has abandoned many of the precautions people were taking to protect themselves and others. Flu vaccination rates are down by about 10% to 15% from previous years.

The Pandemic Center director Jennifer Nuzzo provided commentary on why precautions against Covid have virtually disappeared.

This article references commentary from Director of the Pandemic Center Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo during a panel discussion at the Kidney Week 2022 Conference on future pandemic preparedness.

This article includes commentary by Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Center for Pandemic Preparedness and Response at Brown.

Professor of Epidemiology Jennifer Nuzzo offered commentary on the challenges of tracking COVID-19 trends when most people are testing at home.

"We have a lot more immunity in the population than we did last winter," says Jennifer Nuzzo, who runs the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health.

This article co-written by Jennifer Nuzzo states that public health laboratories need to have a voice in outbreak response planning, and past challenges must inform future efforts to effectively address emerging health threats in the United States.

In this opinion piece, Director of the Pandemic Center Jennifer Nuzzo weighed in on some of the questions New York Times readers have on how to navigate this phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this TED Talk, Jennifer B. Nuzzo unpacks how the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 sparked a cultural shift in how we defend against fires -- and explains why pandemics demand the same sort of reaction.