To Meet this Moment, We Must Take the Lessons from COVID-19 to Heart
Yesterday, May 11, 2023, marked a critical milestone in the US. It marked the end of the COVID-19 Federal Public Health Emergency (FPHE). Many may feel a sense of relief or reassurance, while others worry about an uncertain future. We are fortunate to...
The End of the Federal Public Health Emergency for COVID-19 – What Does it Mean?
Note: This Webinar has ended, you can watch a recording of the livestream below. With the COVID-19 Federal Public Health Emergency (FPHE) scheduled to end on May 11, 2023, there are still many unanswered questions around how this transition will impact everyone....
PRI Speaks With Soul Lounge Primetime
PRI Director Mitch Stripling and PRI COO for CUNY SPH, Danielle Greene, speak with Soul Lounge Primetime about PRI, what we learned during the pandemic, and how PRI works to fulfill its mission of advancing racial equity, building resiliency, and promoting public...
Prepare. Recover. Invest.
The New York City Pandemic Response Institute (PRI) is a landmark initiative designed to help prepare NYC for future public health threats – from infectious diseases to climate-related health emergencies – by advancing racial equity and elevating NYC as a model of public health preparedness across the globe.
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A Resource to Secure the Public Health Future of NYC
Through its multisectoral approach, PRI garners involvement from a broad cross-section of New Yorkers and NYC institutions to:
- Strengthen the skills and capacity needed to support a surge in the emergency response workforce.
- Take account of the social determinants of health in addressing racial disparities, promote equity, and improve access to essential services.
- Develop, source and scale tailored health innovations and technologies.
- Enhance community-led data collection and sharing for decision-making.
- Increase system capacity to respond to known and unknown threats.
- Equip organizations and the public with resources to take swift action.
Collaboratively Addressing Public Health Emergencies
The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated longstanding inequities that if left unaddressed will continue to leave people behind during future public health emergencies. Through an award from the New York City Economic Development Corporation, Columbia University is launching PRI with key partner the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy (CUNY SPH) and a consortium of academic, community, government, and corporate partners. In coordination with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and NYC Emergency Management, PRI will work hand-in-hand with New Yorkers in communities across the five boroughs to enhance their capacity to develop locally tailored health solutions, information, and resources to prepare for, respond to, and recover from future health crises.
To Ensure All New Yorkers and Sectors Have:
Access to Health Solutions
Information for Decision-Making
Capacity to Prepare & Respond
A Robust Multisector Partnership
PRI includes diverse partnerships with dozens of nonprofit, community, faith-based, research and corporate entities that responded to COVID-19 across NYC and are committed to PRI’s whole-of-society approach.
Together, this diverse group of contributors brings the necessary resources, expertise, commitment, and vision to the critical task of equipping New York City to prepare and respond to future public health emergencies, and to invest in a more robust infrastructure, resulting in greater health equity among New Yorkers.
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Partnerships
These organizations and businesses provided initial letters of support to PRI.
Non-Profit and Advocacy
Emergency Medicine All Threats (EMAT) Leadership Forum
- Mount Sinai Health System Department of Emergency Medicine;
- NYC Health + Hospitals; Northwell Health; Maimonides Medical Center;
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine / Jacobi and Montefiore Medical Centers
- Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA); and the Covenant House
- Supported by IDEO, a human-centered design agency
EcoHealthAlliance
UnitedWay of NYC
NYC Employment and Training Coalition (NYCETC)
Coalition for Behavioral Health
NationalHarmReductionCoalition (NHRC)
Public Policy Lab
Community Organizations
COVID Working Group NY
Founding partners:
- Callen-Lorde Community Health Center
- National Black Leadership Commission on Health (Black Health)
- Prep4All
- Latino Commission on AIDS
- Hispanic Health Network
- Housing Works
- Treatment Action Group (TAG)
Housing Works
HarlemCongregationsforCommunity Improvement (HCCI)
The Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York, Inc.
Staten Island Community Organizations Active in Disaster/Medical Ecosystem Coalition
The 400 Foundation
Trauma-Free NYC
Treatment Action Group (TAG)
Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY)
West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT)
Business
Amazon, Google, Cepheid, Microsoft, Accenture, KPMG, IDEO, & Applied Memetics (AM)