The Trump administration has not staffed an office established by Congress to prepare the nation for future pandemics, ...

Five years after COVID-19 reached pandemic status, public health experts reflect on what we learned—and how those lessons can ...

Local health experts say Greater Boston is generally more prepared for a pandemic now than it was in 2020, but headwinds ...

Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...

Amid a worsening avian flu crisis, staffers have not been hired for the federal agency in charge of pandemic response.

The new strategy comes after EU-commissioned research last year pointed to gaps in countries' disaster response plans and a ...

Richard Peabody, director of epidemic and emerging infections at the UK Health Security Agency, has warned that bird flu has ...

The emergence of bird flu in Florida, particularly its impact on dolphins, raises concerns about potential human transmission ...

The H5N1 strain of bird flu has the “potential to become a pandemic”, according to a director at the UK Health Security ...

The White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR)—established by a congressional statute in 2022 in response to failures during the COVID-19 pandemic—used to include a ...

The White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy was established by Congress in 2022 in response to mistakes that led to a flat-footed response to the Covid-19 pandemic.