New NSF Center for Pandemic Insights
Center Draws from Health, Engineering, Agriculture, Social Sciences to Advance Pandemic Science for Emerging Threats
The “pre-emergence” phase of pandemics is the focus of a new center funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and led by the University of California, Davis. The NSF Center for Pandemic Insights (NSF CPI) aims to harness new technologies and develop sensing to detect, investigate, and ultimately prevent pandemics at their source. Funded through NSF’s Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention (PIPP) program, the center includes 11 partnering institutions from across the United States. It also blends four UC Davis powerhouses: the School of Veterinary Medicine, College of Engineering, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and the School of Medicine.