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Prevent the next pandemic

The Institute for Pandemics is helping the world prepare for future global health emergencies.

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Understanding the way pandemics can progress and impact us demands a complex set of skills. Since launching in 2020——and building on U of T’s history of combatting infectious diseases like SARS and COVID-19—the Institute for Pandemics has been bringing these skills together, putting us in a strong position to fight future pandemics and other health emergencies.

The Institute for Pandemics is helping the world better predict, respond to, and recover from global health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s time to create a healthier future—for everyone.
Adalsteinn Brown, Dean,
Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Today, the Institute for Pandemics includes a broad range of faculties. Dynamic, boundary blurring experts from different disciplines are carrying out critical research on health emergencies while sharing knowledge about climate change, vaccine access, health equity, aging and long-term care, and racism and COVID-19.

An interdisciplinary approach can help us understand and anticipate a pandemic’s impact while preparing for new deadly viruses. By supporting the Institute for Pandemics, you can help U of T build a better, healthier future for everyone—one where we can rapidly respond to and recover from pandemics, or even prevent them entirely.

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To learn more about how you can support the Institute’s critical work to prevent and prepare for pandemics, please contact the Director of Advancement at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.

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