Global Pandemic Prevention

Pandemics are preventable.

  • The world has clear models for how to identify infectious diseases, respond quickly, and prevent pandemics from emerging.

  • They require political will and deep cooperation to execute and fund their development. 

  • Such funding is a tiny fraction of the cost: the G20 High-Level Independent Panel (HLIP) calculated that global pandemic prevention could be accomplished with an investment of an initial $75 billion and a standing cost of $15 billion a year.  Based on this assessment, the cost of COVID-19 could have paid for 823 years of prevention.

We have the extraordinary opportunity, with lessons freshly learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, to move immediately to prevent a more devastating pandemic-prone disease from emerging and spreading. PAX sapiens is working to promote better global and local systems for pandemic prevention.

Pandemics Prevention funding is a fraction of the cost of COVID-19 relief.

  • The COVID-19 pandemic has caused approximately 6.9 million lives deaths globally, and will cost an estimated $12.4 trillion by 2024.

  • The risk of a pathogen emerging from zoonotic sources is increasing this century due to climate change, habitat loss converges with a growing population, and increased international travel.

  • Nefarious actors with access to dangerous pathogens pose additional threats to health and security of the 8 billion people on earth.

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