Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

The Next Time: Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, and Response

Date: May 19, 2026
Time: 3 to 5:30 p.m.

UCSF Mission Bay, San Francisco

Genentech Hall, Byers Auditorium
Reception: Mission Hall Lobby

New modeling suggests that over the next 25 years there is a 50% probability of a pandemic occurring, with a mortality level similar to or worse than COVID-19. The latest volume of the Disease Control Priorities (DCP-4) series, published by the World Bank, focuses on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response. Please join authors of the volume to discuss findings at this special event, co-sponsored by the Bay Area Global Health Alliance, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, and UC Davis Center for Global Health.

Session/TitleSpeaker(s)
Introduction
Setting the Stage
  • Payam Nahid, Executive Director, Institute for Global Health Sciences, UCSF
Panel 1
Select Chapters and Implications from the DCP-4
  • Eran Bendavid, Professor of Medicine and of Health Policy, Stanford University
  • Erik Hanushek, Hanna Senior Fellow Hoover Institution, Stanford University
  • Dean Jamison, economist, Professor Emeritus at IGHS, UCSF
  • Nita Madhav, epidemiologist and risk modeler, independent consultant
  • Moderated by Michele Barry, Senior Dean of Global Health, Stanford University
Panel 2
Pandemic Interventions: Prevention and Response
  • Shuchi Anand, Associate Dean for Global Health, UC Davis
  • Stefano Bertozzi, Professor, Health Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
  • Angel Desai, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, UC Davis
  • Charles Whittaker, Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, UC Berkeley
  • Moderated by mike Reid, Associate Professor and infectious diseases physician, UCSF
Conclusion
Reflections
  • Ashish Jha, Senior Fellow, Harvard Belfer Center; Co-Founder & CEO, BioRadar
  • Mamphela Ramphele, citizen and anti-apartheid activist, medical doctor
Logos for UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences, Bay Area Global Health Alliance, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, and Center for Global Health UC Davis

UCSF welcomes all participants to our events. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event because of a disability, please contact Pilar Deer at pilar.deer@ucsf.edu as soon as possible.

Photo: Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH.