READY: Global consortium strengthening NGO preparedness for large-scale infectious disease epidemics and pandemics that become international humanitarian emergencies

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Lead Faculty:

Paul Spiegel

READY is a global consortium designed to strengthen capacity for response to major infectious disease outbreaks or pandemics by filling critical gaps in outbreak response capacity and capability. It does this by leveraging expertise and best practices across these operational, academic, clinical, and communications organizations. By diversifying NGO capacity in coordination with other global outbreak initiatives, READY will strive to improve the humanitarian community’s response to infectious disease outbreaks that become international humanitarian emergencies, and even prevent many from ever becoming global. Operational consortium members will be supported to build and retain standing capacity to more quickly and effectively respond to large-scale disease outbreaks. The program will also design and roll-out a multi-sectoral response approach that seeks to address the holistic needs of outbreak-affected communities – with community engagement and communications at the heart of the program design.


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Paolo Verme

Paolo Verme is a Lead Economist, Manager of the Research Program on Forced...

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Ruwan Ratnayake

Ruwan is a field epidemiologist with considerable experience in humanitarian...

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Molly Lasater

Molly Lasater is an Associate in the Department of International Health at the...

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Kim Berg

Kim Berg is a child and adolescent psychiatry resident working on issues of...

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Sathya Doraiswamy

Dr. Sathya Doraiswamy is currently the Operational Support and Quality Assurance...

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