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Welcome to IHEP – the Institute of Health Emergencies and Pandemics

Transforming the future of public health emergency research, through interdisciplinary collaboration, building capacity, and driving action.

As multiple, interconnected crises continue to challenge societies, collaboration has never been more critical. Taking an all-hazards approach, we work with public health, professional, and community partners, develop solutions and, shape policy to strengthen health systems and security for a more resilient future.

Harnessing research and partnerships, IHEP drives innovation to protect health and prepare for what’s next.

Formerly the Institute for Pandemics, read about our recent name change.

Learn more about the Institute

As multiple, interconnected crises continue to challenge societies, collaboration has never been more critical. Taking an all-hazards approach, we work with public health, professional, and community partners, develop solutions and, shape policy to strengthen health systems and security for a more resilient future.

Harnessing research and partnerships, IHEP drives innovation to protect health and prepare for what’s next.

Formerly the Institute for Pandemics, read about our recent name change.

Learn more about the Institute

Research themes

Readiness

IfP studies the development and spread of pandemics through innovative, community-based surveillance, real-time monitoring, and advanced modelling methods; transmission modes of infectious diseases and preventive measures; and strategies to minimize risk for the next pandemic emerging at the human-animal interface.

Resilience

IfP studies system resilience, its response, and communication in pandemics and large-scale epidemics. These include roles of governance, governments, critical infrastructures and information systems; methodological evaluation of emerging evidence and integration of multiple information streams in policy-making; processes to support data driven, ethical, equitable public health responses; roles of civil society; and effective communication within and across systems, and with the public.

Recovery

IfP studies pandemic’s broader impacts on health and society, in short and longer terms; impacts from various containment measures; health impacts on vulnerable and marginalized populations, as linked to the existing material-social deprivation gradient; strategies to reduce inequities in health access and outcomes in pandemics; and the roadmap to build back better and fairer.

Equity

This transversal theme on ‘Equity’ is leading the research thrust on a multitude of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) related issues in pandemics and public health crises, including but not limited to the marginalized and vulnerable populations, racial and gender disparity, and Indigenous health, among others, in connection to Readiness, Resilience and Recovery.
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