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Pandemic Center Team & Collaborative Reports

Cleaner Indoor Air: An opportunity to improve the health of Americans.

The Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health, in partnership with the Biosecurity and Pandemic Policy Center at the Texas A&M Bush School of Government & Public Service, released an outline of priority policy actions to advance clean indoor air that will improve public health and reduce disease transmission.

Why Did the Best Prepared Country in the World Fare So Poorly during COVID?

This study reviews what we think we know about the US experience during COVID and where the data point toward identifying the source of America's profound and deadly failures, to improve preparedness and response to the next pandemic.

Testing Playbook for Biological Emergencies

The Testing Playbook for Biological Emergencies provides US decision-makers at the federal, state and local level with a clear and evidence-based guide for making rapid and effective decisions regarding the development, implementation and scale-up of diagnostic testing at every stage in an infectious disease emergency.

A New Species of Trouble: Strengthening Capacity and Capability for the Identification, Attribution, and Consequence Management of Accidental and Deliberate Pathogen Releases in Africa

African countries, as in many others in both the developing and developed world, have protocols for managing naturally occurring outbreaks, but fewer policy measures govern those arising from accidental or deliberate actions. This policy brief intends to motivate countries to develop policies to assess the cause of outbreaks with epidemic and pandemic potential and outlines specific necessary management actions.

Evaluation of the Global Health Security Index as a predictor of COVID-19 excess mortality standardised for under-reporting and age structure

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, per a major study published in BMJ Global Health. The analysis was led by researchers from the Brown University School of Public Health, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI).

VacTask: South African Vaccine Manufacturing Capabilities Key Findings and Recommendations

There is a brief window of opportunity for the South African government to accelerate the establishment of an integrated, competitive, and cohesive local vaccine manufacturing ecosystem for the African continent. The financial resources and the political will are, for a short period of time, available to support such a far-reaching and impactful intervention.

American Democracy and Pandemic Security: Strengthening the U.S Pandemic Response in a Free Society

The Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Global Health Policy Center, and the COVID Collaborative convened a bipartisan cross-section of the nation’s top pandemic leaders to identify solutions to better protect Americans from pandemic threats and re-enforce American values of freedom and democracy.
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