Brown University Pandemic Center

In The Atlantic, Pandemic Center affiliate Craig Spencer MD MPH highlights how the current administration is weakening the US' defenses against outbreaks and abandoning its role as a global health leader. This leaves the US dependent on the organizations it's taking funding from when the next outbreak occurs. More here ?? https://lnkd.in/dACKp2tS

“The end of one emergency does not end all emergencies.” At Brown University’s Presidential Faculty Award Lecture, Jennifer Nuzzo spoke on pandemic-proofing the future, reflecting on outbreaks from #COVID to #H5N1 and the work of the Pandemic Center. Speaking with The Brown Daily Herald, Inc. Jennifer shared: “There are going to be more of these events, and I want people to understand them, be ready for them, and be ready to snap into action.” More here: https://lnkd.in/eUDpf2AB

?? Attention Brown University Community Monday the Presidential Faculty Award and lecture featuring Professor Jennifer Nuzzo, “Pandemic-Proofing the Future” takes place at 4:30. Please RSVP if you plan to attend: https://lnkd.in/eNdkHrFH?

An op-ed by Pandemic Center Affiliate Scott Rivkees underscores concerns around the current #measles outbreaks and the impending spring break travel for Americans. Public health strategies need to be implemented as soon as possible and are laid out in his op-ed here ?? https://lnkd.in/euhHztVT

Senior Advisor to the Pandemic Center Elizabeth (Beth) Cameron sat with J Stephen Morrison in the recent episode of Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) podcast #TheCommonHealth to discuss the upheaval inside the US government regarding #biothreats. ?? here: https://lnkd.in/eK28-UWR

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Pandemic Center Senior Adviser Seth Berkley recently spoke in Rwanda at the #AMREF African Health Agenda International Conference. He discussed vaccine access and manufacturing, lessons learned from emergency preparedness and recent hemorrhagic fever outbreaks, and the need to shift priorities toward prevention and primary health care (PHC).

On March 14th we will have our second installment of the Biosecurity Game Changers Seminar Titled: Biosecurity, Biosafety & The 100-Day Mission. Convened and moderated by & intended for early-to-mid-career professionals. Moderated by Game Changers Fellow Dinah Nasike with panelists Dr Talkmore Maruta with African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) and Claire Standley with CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations) Register here: https://lnkd.in/eaWMcu6N?

At a event hosted by Brown University School of Public Health and the The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University an event that commemorated the 5 year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. Brown faculty reflected on #COVID's lessons for preparedness and response. Jennifer Nuzzo told The Brown Daily Herald, Inc., “COVID is not a one-off, It’s behind us, thankfully, but we are going to have to deal with more of these types of events in our future.” ??? Read more about the event and its participants here: https://lnkd.in/etWyzfJQ

ICYMI ?? ‘The cost of defunding PEPFAR and the impact on the fight against HIV/AIDS’ We had our 20th webinar in our Pandemics & Society series last Friday! Moderated by Wilmot James w/ panelists panelist Glenda Gray from University of the Witwatersrand and Stephanie Psaki from Brown University School of Public Health Watch here: https://lnkd.in/eCJ7eKER