IPI worked to build a collaborative and transdisciplinary network to prepare for and prevent the next pandemic. The Institute’s team secured the NSF-funded Center for Pandemic Insights based at the UC Davis One Health Institute.
This National Science Foundation-funded Center, launched in September 2024 and led by UC Davis, draws from health, engineering, agriculture, and social sciences to advance pandemic science for emerging threats.
Part of CEPI’s Disease X program, this project is utilizing the power of AI and expert opinion to assess the pandemic potential of dangerous pathogens and provide risk rankings for pandemic threats to optimize vaccine pipelines.
UC Davis convened a two-and-a-half-day workshop that brought together members of the private, non-profit, public, and academic sectors and produced a roadmap for improving our pandemic response.
With funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), UC Davis developed One Health and pandemic prevention resources that are readily available for translation by educators and for adaptation into undergraduate, graduate, medical, nursing, veterinary, and other professional school curricula.
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The UC Davis Neuroscience Consortium unites the many diverse neuroscience groups at UC Davis with the ultimate goal of enhancing well-being for all by increasing our understanding of how the brain’s multiple systems interact with each other, with technology and with the world
UC Davis Health and Medical Center is ranked the Sacramento region’s #1 hospital (US News and World Report
The UC Davis MIND Institute is working to change lives for individuals with autism, fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome, ADHD and other neurodevelopmental conditions
UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine is ranked #1 in the nation and is home to the One Health Institute, a global leader in One Health research, training, and education
The UC Davis Institute on Regenerative Cures has over 40 active cell and gene therapy clinical trials
The UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center is only one of 51 designated as “comprehensive” by the National Cancer Institute
UC Davis is home to one of only seven primate research centers supported by the National Institutes of Health developing drugs and therapies that benefit human physical and mental health
Healthy Davis Together, a full community partnership, was the award-winning pandemic response model that reduced the spread of COVID-19 and helped facilitate a safe, gradual return to city and campus life in Davis. Learn more
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Emerging health threats are urgent threats to the health and well-being of people, animals, and our planet. They can take many forms, including emergence of infectious diseases in humans, animals, plants, and insects; movement of pathogens; antimicrobial resistance; exposure to toxins; the impacts of extreme weather and other disasters; mental health; and rising stress. Globally, emerging health threats are increasing as a result of climate change, poverty, and limited access to nutritious food and healthcare.
Grand Challenges is catalyzing a new kind of collaboration among experts to work toward a safer future. We recognize the innovative power of UC Davis to understand and prepare for what lies ahead. Transdisciplinary research, education, and service are critical for developing a diversity of approaches to identify, mitigate, and prevent emerging health threats.
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