Influenza epidemics are influenced by climate, including absolute humidity and temperature. Patterns of climate variability are expected to increase with climate change, leading to more frequent and severe weather extremes. Increasing variability stands to impact seasonal flu outbreaks, which can be explored using mechanistic epidemiologic models.

Emerging and/or re-emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) in the East Africa region are associated with climate change-induced environmental drivers. This review recommends the adoption of specialised risk mapping approaches such as ENM for environmental monitoring of EIDs under IRA processes. Findings from the review were used for the conceptualisation of an IRA framework for addressing environmentally driven EIDs.

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.

In the face of a looming global health threats, action is urgently needed. Governments and multilateral global health organizations must improve access to existing countermeasures, leverage conditions on public funding and trial agreements to enhance access to new tools, and support local manufacturing in LMICs. The question is whether we will take the necessary steps to ensure that everyone has access to them.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.