An ad hoc committee under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will plan a 1.5-day public workshop that will examine the world’s readiness to prevent, detect, and respond to influenza, with lessons for preventing other potential novel diseases. To help provide context and frame the workshop discussions, the National Academy of Medicine will co-host a half day pre-workshop event that will serve to establish why pandemic influenza is still of major societal concern.
Workshop participants will discuss the latest advances in global, regional, and national governance structures, systems and capacities to fight against the next influenza pandemic, explore areas that need more work, and examine immediate and short-term actions that will have the greatest impact on global health security by 2030.

Specifically, this workshop will feature invited presentations and discussions on topics including:

· Recent progress achieved in monitoring global health security and pandemic preparedness at the global and national levels, including advances in developing national action plans stemming from the Joint External Evaluation, building strong public health capacities that incorporate a One Health approach, and developing risk analysis and assessment tools to guide resource allocation.

· Critical challenges and opportunities in developing and evaluating medical countermeasures, including seasonal vaccines, a universal influenza vaccine, and novel diagnostics and therapeutics, and strategies to secure their adequate supply and distribution, particularly ensuring access to high-risk populations.

· Various methods and tools, such as effective surveillance systems and sequencing technologies, to shorten the time between onset and detection, lab confirmation, and public communication of major disease outbreaks.

· Strategies to protect supply chains and build surge capacity for essential services and infrastructure, such as emergency operations centers.

· Effective mechanisms for stimulating meaningful coordination and communication among various stakeholders, including multilateral organizations, national governments, private sector, and civil society.

Workshop speakers and discussants will contribute perspectives from government, academia, private, and nonprofit sectors from the global to local levels. The committee will plan and organize the workshop, select and invite speakers and discussants, and moderate the discussions. A proceedings of the presentations and discussions at the pre-workshop event and workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.