About the Pandemic Security Project
The Dickey Center Global Health and Development program's Pandemic Security Project (PSP) is a two-year initiative that has explored and analyzed the lessons surfaced during the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. PSP has convened Dartmouth, domestic, and international experts in economics, biosecurity, and epidemiology to study the global effects of pandemics, the origins of COVID, analyze our preparedness, and suggest ways to prevent the next epidemic. The initiative has followed an ever-widening scope of influence and effect, expanding from the local and academic view to the national impacts and successes and finally to the international stage of disease burden and innovation.
The Covid Crisis Group (originally the Covid Commission Planning Group) was created in 2021 and assembled 34 experts, including Kendall Hoyt, to map the landscape of the crisis and hold listening sessions with nearly 300 people. Two years later, with no National Covid Commission in sight, the Covid Crisis Group published a powerful investigative report of what went wrong—and right—with America's Covid response: Lessons from the Covid War (PublicAffairs, April 2023).
In December 2023, Kendall co-chaired the Dartmouth International Vaccine Conference on "Turning Vaccines into Vaccinations," cosponsored by the Dickey Center, that discussed multidisciplinary advances in vaccine research and the role of academic vaccine institutes. In March 2024, Kendall and the Dickey Center convened the Salzburg Global Seminar "Better Preparedness for the Next Pandemic: Developing Vaccine Access Models with Low- and Middle-Income Countries" that convened a group of senior representatives of international health ministries, heads of procurement, policymakers, researchers, and health care specialists from the African continent and beyond.
