Annual Reports

CEID Releases 2022 Annual Report

September 1st, 2022 in Annual Reports, Center News and Press Releases

Boston University's Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research is proud to release our Annual Report: Growing Resilience Against Epidemics.

The report opens with a letter by CEID Founding Director, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, who is currently on sabbatical. "We founded CEID a year ago with a vision that to address the growing threat of emerging pathogens, we need multidisciplinary research & to approach pandemic preparedness from the bottom up, rooted in our communities globally. Our goal is to create a pandemic preparedness initiative that focused on the operational & technical aspects of global health security and to link policy to ground truth. Epidemics break societies along known fault lines. Ensuring that we provide protection for all our communities is a critical component of resilience. Hence, one of the driving forces of the center is rooted in the key value at the center of all things at BU: equity."

The report takes stock of CEID's inaugural year and the strong foundation we have built thanks in no small part to our incredible faculty, partners, and supporters who have helped us bring this vision to life. As we continue to move forward under the direction of CEID Acting Director Dr. David Hamer, we renew our commitment to these goals and look forward to all we will accomplish in the year ahead.

"The current global monkeypox epidemic and the continued evolution of SARS-CoV-2 highlight the threat that the world faces from emerging infectious diseases," said  Dr. Hamer."CEID is well placed to address the challenges that the world faces from these emerging diseases as well as others that are likely to arise as a result of climate change, stressed water supplies, environmental destruction, global population growth, ineffective or absent surveillance systems, and microbial evolution.”

 

Read The 2022 Annual Report