Preparing for COVID 2.0: Understanding Animal ‘Spillover’ And Addressing Excessive Nationalism

Former Merck executive Julie Gerberding, Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, ModeX Therapeutics’ John Mascola, and NIH’s Larry Tabak discuss what it will take to better handle the next pandemic.

Experts discuss preparedness for the next pandemic • Source: Shutterstock

Public health and biopharma leaders at a recent summit highlighted areas that need attention to be better prepared to tackle the next pandemic and also some key lessons learned as the world struggles to put COVID-19 in the rearview mirror.

Julie Gerberding, CEO of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH) emphasized the need to really understand the concept of “spillover” – the intersections between humans and animals that result in new viruses emerging in people and at times in animals as seen

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