Ebola, Zika, the flu: Are we ready for the next big health crisis? How will it play out in the era of shifting political powers, disinformation, and global conflict? On this website, join the Harvard Global Health Institute in exploring answers to pressing questions about epidemic and pandemic preparedness.
It’s a new chapter for pandemic preparedness: In Africa, Ebola continues to demonstrate gaps in outbreak response and containment. In Western nations, misinformation and junk news are driving people’s attitudes towards vaccines and epidemics. In a world still divided by drastic economic differences, some countries are withholding information about emerging pathogens to apply political pressure. Then again, there are new initiatives, road maps and funding mechanisms that are overcoming political and procedural obstacles. In this section, we are assembling videos, news coverage, twitter summaries & more on the latest topics in pandemic preparedness. Thanks for your patience as we are adding content and building out this site!
Inspired by the centennial of the 1918 influenza pandemic, the Harvard Global Health Institute hosted Outbreak Week in September 2018 at Harvard University. The week-long conference brought leading researchers, policy makers, health advocates, economists, doctors, journalists, historians and other experts together to take a fresh, multidisciplinary look at infectious disease outbreaks and global pandemic preparedness.
Interdisciplinary, international, inter-agency: Take a look at the diverse voices that made Outbreak week unique.
Seven events in five days — click here for an overview of the week’s programming.
Collaboration is key: 10 institutions across Harvard worked together to make this multifaceted exploration possible.
From Harvard Law Today, October 5, 2018 — Last week, Harvard commemorated the centennial of the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people worldwide with a weeklong series of events across the university. Outbreak Week, led by the Harvard Global Health Institute, was a unique multidisciplinary effort investigating and engaging with epidemic andContinue reading How Prepared Are We For The Next Health Crisis?
From the Harvard Gazette, September 25, 2018 By Brett Milano Harvard Correspondent Pandemics are political, and the spread of disease is a common consequence of global conflict. In a lecture titled “Conflict and the Global Threat of Pandemics,” Michele Barry, senior dean of global health and director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health atContinue reading Outbreak Week Opens With Talk on Conflict and Epidemics
