Tessa A 🔸 answers Looking for: post-COVID pandemic preparedness initiatives

[Tessa A 🔸]

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)

[Tessa A 🔸]

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.

[jmw]

Thanks—this is really helpful. The CGD piece is, as usual, excellent.