The idea was born over drinks at the Hard Rock Hotel in Davos Switzerland, on January 23, 2020. There was a new virus ringing alarm bells in China, but it hadn't yet become an international concern.

Anna Maria Bounds is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College, City University of New York, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Public Policy from The New School. “Urban Preppers and the ...

The prospect of any pandemic outbreak arising in the future poses an obvious major and immediate threat to human life across the planet. How can a disease outbreak caused by either known or emerging ...

Five years ago, in January 2020, many health experts were sounding the alarm about a virus that was spreading rapidly in Wuhan, China. The virus was COVID-19, which the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

We come to this dialogue on pandemics from different backgrounds – one as a former Prime Minister and Co-Chair of the WHO Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, and the other as a ...

Seth Berkley, former CEO of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, has written a new book — Fair Doses — that tells the inside story of the effort to expand access to vaccines, especially to low- and ...