APPA, the American Pandemic Prevention Association, is an emerging biosecurity nonprofit that represents and serves the American people’s interest in preventing future pandemics. We aim to raise the collective engagement, education, and agency of a republic that’s both vulnerable to pandemic threats and subject to an incomplete pandemic prevention system.
We collaborate with and are guided by top experts and institutions in public health and medicine, and we consider ourselves a lean, forceful shop for funding and testing under-resourced ideas with high potential to advance pandemic prevention in America.
America's pandemic prevention system is disjointed and tough to orchestrate — not for lack of scientific talent or intent, which are plentiful and earnest — but because it requires coordinating an extraordinarily complex web of interconnected systems: public health infrastructure, academic research, agricultural practices, climate adaptation, disease surveillance, cultural behaviors, and more. We specialize in researching and mapping these connections, whether obvious or hidden, and highlighting vulnerabilities before they become crises. To strengthen and build new pandemic defenses, we're building bridges between scientists, policymakers, agricultural leaders, and government officials at both federal and state levels. We seek advisors in policy and agriculture who can help forge these critical connections and translate systemic insights into actionable reforms.
