Focus Areas

Medical and Public Health Preparedness and Response

Our center provides decision makers with in-depth analysis and recommendations to prepare for and respond to public health emergencies and disasters.

Recent Projects

Voices in Print: Elevating Patient Perspectives in Medical Literature
Supported by: Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Medicine

CommuniHealth – Strategies for Standing Up, Strengthening, and Sustaining the Local Community Health Sector (a.k.a. CommuniVax 2.0)
Supported by: Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Metrics for Holistic Recovery Among the Worst-Off Survivors of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Supported by: Open Philanthropy Project

Survey on National Contact Tracing Workforce

CommuniVax: A Coalition to Strengthen the Community’s Involvement in an Equitable Vaccination Rollout
Supported by: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Working Group on Readying Populations for COVID-19 Vaccine
Supported by: National Science Foundation-funded CONVERGE Initiative

Addressing Health-Related Misinformation and Disinformation
Supported by: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Johns Hopkins University Catalyst Award, National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), Open Philanthropy (past funding support)

Recent Publications

Learnings from COVID-19 for future respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness: a summary of the literature

Dissecting Pandemic-Prone Viral Families Volume 3: The Adenoviridae

Practical playbook for addressing health misinformation

The Integration of Primary Care, Public Health, and Community-Based Organizations: A Federal Policy Analysis

The need to document lessons learnt and exemplary practices of maintaining essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022 Olympic Games held during the COVID-19 pandemic: planning, outcomes, and lessons learnt

Dissecting Pandemic-Prone Viral Families Volume 2: The Paramyxoviridae

Group-based trajectory models of integrated vaccine delivery and equity in low- and middle-income countries

Contagion, Care, and Interdependence in Pandemics

Dissecting Pandemic-Prone Viral Families, Volume 1: The Picornaviridae

Mass-gathering decision making and its implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic