A dismantled health infrastructure leaves the U.S. incredibly vulnerable, warns infectious-disease expert Michael Osterholm.

The Biden administration Friday announced creation of a new pandemic preparedness office within the White House. The goal is to ensure that America is better prepared to deal with the next pandemic.

Moderna is shifting attention to the next pandemic, whatever it may be, in a new partnership with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to condense vaccine development timelines ...

American democracy and public health effectiveness are inextricable. American health security depends on maximizing the ability to live in a free, pluralistic society able to coherently manage a ...

The second COVID inquiry report reinforces that pandemics are not only health emergencies but also social crises, requiring ...

In 2006, when many Americans had barely heard the word “coronavirus,” Congress passed the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA), a landmark, bipartisan legislative framework that has ...

The Department of Health and Human Services would be required to implement a pandemic preparedness and response program that leverages artificial intelligence under new bipartisan Senate legislation.

The White House’s pandemic preparedness team has quietly withered to a single part-time employee. Congress established OPPR in 2022 with broad bipartisan support to coordinate and strengthen domestic ...

It’s not a question of if, but when, another pandemic hits Britain. We owe it to all those who suffered to make sure mistakes are not repeated, says Ben Connah, secretary of the UK Covid-19 inquiry ...

The September 20 UN High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (PPR) offered an opportunity to galvanize high level statesmanship in response to what was “one of the greatest ...

Since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an unfortunate decline in policy interest in preparations for the next one. Congress has not acted to renew the federal Pandemic and All Hazards ...

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed several weaknesses in public health emergency preparedness such as insufficient centralized coordination at the federal level. The frequency of pandemics on the scale of ...