Preparing for Future Pandemics and Other Biological Catastrophes

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical need to better prepare for future pandemics and other biological threats. During this panel event, the central elements to an effective response were discussed, including building workforce and surveillance capacity; accelerating and expanding R&D and manufacturing for the equitable distribution of vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics; and, establishing the global structures and institutions necessary to rapidly respond. The event was generously supported by the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture Fund in International Studies at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.