{"id":11058,"date":"2025-12-17T15:02:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11058"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:28:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T23:28:48","slug":"stopping-the-next-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/12\/17\/stopping-the-next-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Stopping the next pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2025\/12\/stopping-the-next-pandemic\/\">Harvard Gazette<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disease surveillance network faced \u2018existential cliff\u2019 despite proven success. Then came the $100 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It began with some intriguing scientific discoveries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A team of researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard began to suspect nearly two decades ago that so-called \u201cemerging diseases\u201d such as Ebola and Lassa virus were not quite what they seemed. Rather than being newly evolved contagions, mounting evidence suggested they were ancient pathogens that had circulated among humans for thousands of years. What really was emerging was accurate diagnosis: Medicine only recently had acquired the ability to detect these diseases and track the toll of outbreaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those revelations planted the seed for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelpandemicprevention.org\/\">Sentinel<\/a>, a disease surveillance network. Last month, the MacArthur Foundation announced a $100 million award to Sentinel \u2014 funding that arrived just as the organization faced the possibility of closure after severe cuts in federal support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWork in pandemic preparedness and global health is having an existential crisis right now with the drop in federal funding,\u201d said Sentinel co-founder&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabetilab.org\/pardissabeti\/\">Pardis Sabeti<\/a>, professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. \u201cWe were really on a precarious ledge. So this has completely changed everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"AnUiaGfF y CcvmimjbNdu HdD end\">AnUiaGfF y CcvmimjbNdu HdD end<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard Gazette Disease surveillance network faced \u2018existential cliff\u2019 despite proven success. Then came the $100 million. It began with some intriguing scientific discoveries. A team of researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard began to suspect nearly two decades ago that so-called \u201cemerging diseases\u201d such as Ebola and Lassa virus were not quite what they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,6,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-featured-headlines","category-preparedness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11059,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11058\/revisions\/11059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}