Health Archives

Dec 08 2021

Pandemic Prevention Initiative

The Pandemic Prevention Initiative is working closely with a global network of laboratories, non-profit organizations, governments, international organizations, and private companies to strengthen global surveillance capacity and provide actionable insights …

Dec 03 2021

#RFBreakthrough

Preventing the Next Wave: Spotting, Tracking, and Responding to Covid Variants

This session was broadcasted LIVE on Wednesday, December 8, 2021 @ 12:00 pm ET across The Rockefeller Foundation’s social media pages (Twitter, Facebook, Linked In, and YouTube). Existing and emerging genomic surveillance techniques are …

Dec 02 2021

STAT Communications Community of Practice

Dec 01 2021

Perspective

Genomic Surveillance Is Essential To Track Covid-19 Variants in Both Unvaccinated and Vaccinated Populations

Technological advancements have made sequencing quicker and more affordable, but collaboration, outreach, and trust are needed to achieve representative samples from underserved populations. The course of the Covid-19 pandemic depends not …

Dec 01 2021

Statements

Joint Statement: Foundations Decry Vaccine Inequity Leading to the Emergence and Circulation of Dangerous Variants

NEW YORK — As concern escalates over the threat of the Omicron Covid-19 variant spreading, a group of the world’s leading philanthropies have joined together to call on G7 countries …

Nov 16 2021

Press Releases

The Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute Announces Collaboration With the Pandemic Tracking Collective

Partnering to Fill Crucial Data Gaps and Define Novel Data Solutions Washington, D.C. | November 16, 2021 - Today, The Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Institute (PPI) announced a new collaboration with …

Nov 15 2021

Press Releases

New USD10 Million Project Launched To Combat the Growing Mis- and Disinformation Crisis in Public Health

The Social Science Research Council, with funding from The Rockefeller Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Craig Newmark Philanthropies, will quantify the costs and harms of mis- and disinformation, and …

Nov 15 2021

Strengthening the Genomic Surveillance Ecosystem: Guiding Principles To Harness India’s Genomic Potential

About the Report As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, more variants of SARS-CoV-2 will emerge, and each may have the potential to further disrupt public health systems and slow progress to end …

Health Asia

Nov 14 2021

U.S. Covid-19 Response and Recovery

Sustaining and Expanding Vaccine Equity

Nov 09 2021

Perspective

The Critical Challenge of Tracking Breakthrough Infections, and Why We Still Need Better Data Standards

Despite ample vaccine supplies, outbreaks among unvaccinated populations in the US and the appearance of the Delta variant promote infection in fully vaccinated individuals. These breakthrough infections must be carefully …