I am compiling a list of post-COVID pandemic preparedness (PP) initiatives, especially big ones. I’m interested in government/intergovernmental and philanthropic investments, or planned investments. I am casting a wide net, please err on the side of adding something in the comments.
Ultimately, I’m interested in the extent to which the proposed work is likely to reduce GCBRs.
The things I have come across so far:
National governments
US
$10 B allocation for PP in the American Rescue Plan (= Coronavirus bill)
$30 B allocation for PP in the American Jobs Plan (= Infrastructure bill)
UK
Inter-governmental organisations
WHO and Germany
New WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence in Berlin. Announced May 2021.
Treaty against pandemics
The letter was written by 24 leaders, as well as the president of the European Council and WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and published in the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph, Spain’s El Pais and France’s Le Monde newspapers.
CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations)
$3.5 B fundraising effort for new PP programs
Philanthropy/non-profit
The Trinity Challenge
A competition and prize aiming to incentivise PP.
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation has hired Rick Bright (former BARDA Director). He has floated the idea of a new institution for outbreak detection and response.
Global Virome Project
Somewhat controversial planned effort to sequence alot of viruses. Pre-pandemic but getting a lot of coverage as a PP measure.
Fundraising for a budget >$5 B over 10 y.
A pointer to someone else’s list of initiatives, but: the Center for Global Development had a great post in March on Financing for Global Health Security and Pandemic Preparedness: Taking Stock and What’s Next.
More directly answering the question (and overlapping some of what is linked in that post):
CSIS, NTI and the Center for Global Development put together a PDF Concept Note: Global Health Security Challenge Fund
PandemicTech is “a venture philanthropy leading global health security innovation; the world’s first innovation ecosystem dedicated to fighting pandemics” (not strictly post-COVID, they’ve been going since at least 2017)
The Global Partnership Against WMDs has a new “Signature Initiative” to “partner with the Africa Centres for Disease Control (A-CDC) and other African agencies to mitigate biological threats in Africa”
The investors in the recently-launched The Public Health Company (Venrock, Verily, and Sweat Equity Ventures) are maybe not directly funding pandemic preparedness, but are at least interested in investing in Public Health As A Service
XPRIZE hosted a number of pandemic-related prizes, and might do so again (specifically a Rapid COVID Testing Prize, a Pandemic Response Challenge, a Next Gen Mask Challenge)
Additional group I learned about is Prevent Epidemics, which is a project of Resolve To Save Lives, which is itself a project of the global public health org Vital Strategies. Not sure why the org is so nested, but their Epidemics That Didn’t Happen data story is just gorgeous and I think they might be worth investigating further.
Thanks—this is really helpful. The CGD piece is, as usual, excellent.