In a recent interview with ScienceInsider, Rick Bright explains the Pandemic Prevention Institute's early demise, what he plans to do next, and his deeper concerns about the future of pandemic prevention. ⬇️
When public health specialist Rick Bright launched the Pandemic Prevention Institute under the aegis of the Rockefeller Foundation last year, he recognized that several other efforts—some old, some new—had similarly ambitious visions for how to make the world safer from pathogens. “No one can do it all,” Brightin October 2021, when the institute was 7 months old. “We have to now come together to decide how we divide and conquer this ecosystem.
Bright has had a high-profile career and, before joining Rockefeller, became embroiled in a controversy that made headlines. For 5 years, Bright headed the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority , which had a $1 billion budget to fund diagnostics, treatments, and prevention tools like vaccines and masks.
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