A New Paradigm for Pandemic Preparedness.
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2023-12
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Preparing for pandemics requires a degree of interdisciplinary work that is challenging under the current paradigm. This review summarizes the challenges faced by the field of pandemic science and proposes how to address them.Recent findings
The structure of current siloed systems of research organizations hinders effective interdisciplinary pandemic research. Moreover, effective pandemic preparedness requires stakeholders in public policy and health to interact and integrate new findings rapidly, relying on a robust, responsive, and productive research domain. Neither of these requirements are well supported under the current system.Summary
We propose a new paradigm for pandemic preparedness wherein interdisciplinary research and close collaboration with public policy and health practitioners can improve our ability to prevent, detect, and treat pandemics through tighter integration among domains, rapid and accurate integration, and translation of science to public policy, outreach and education, and improved venues and incentives for sustainable and robust interdisciplinary work.Type
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Fefferman, Nina H, John S McAlister, Belinda S Akpa, Kelechi Akwataghibe, Fahim Tasneema Azad, Katherine Barkley, Amanda Bleichrodt, Michael J Blum, et al. (2023). A New Paradigm for Pandemic Preparedness. Current epidemiology reports, 10(4). pp. 240–251. 10.1007/s40471-023-00336-w Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/31553.
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Charles L Nunn
Dana Kristine Pasquale
Dr. Dana K Pasquale earned a PhD in infectious disease epidemiology from UNC-Chapel Hill, earned an MPH in health behavior from East Carolina University, and completed three years as a postdoc in the Duke University Department of Sociology. She combines social network and pathogen genetic data to study infectious disease transmission networks. The majority of Dana’s work is domestic, examining HIV and syphilis transmission in North Carolina. She also uses clonal bacterial data, pathogen genetic data, and location information to study hospital-acquired multi-drug resistant infections. Dana is the PI of Duke RDS^2: Respondent-Driven Sampling for Respiratory Disease Surveillance, a CDC-funded snowball sampling study to locate active, undiagnosed SARS-CoV-2 cases in Durham County. She is also externally funded by NIH and NSF as a co-Investigator.
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