Pandemic Preparation

January 31, 2024 – 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City, Auditorium 201 -320 E. 9th Street, Charlotte, NC 28202

In her (FPA)  article “Pandemic Preparedness: ending the deadly cycle of panic and neglect” Claudia Reynolds outlines the experiences of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.  She also reviews the history and future of the role of governments in pandemic preparedness.  I spoke in January 2015 on this same stage about “weather map for infectious diseases”.  Consistent with Claudia Reynolds, I have argued that public health systems can be run with more predictive and preparatory concepts rather than a crisis-on crisis-off mentality.  I will illustrate the biology of spread of pathogens and the progress we have made in making pandemic response more predictive.

Daniel Janies, Ph.D., Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics / Co-director for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks (CIPHER), UNC Charlotte