Jessica Rivera

Jessica Rivera is an infectious disease epidemiologist and science communicator, widely known professionally as Jessica Malaty Rivera. She serves as Executive Director of the Infodemiology Initiative at The Public Good Projects, focusing on health information integrity, misinformation, public health communication, emerging infectious disease surveillance, vaccine advocacy, and trust-building in public health.

Pandemic Preparedness Is Being Built and Dismantled at Once

At Aspen Ideas: Health, Blythe Adamson, Ashish Jha, John Nkengasong and Jessica Malaty Rivera argued that the world is still not ready for the next fast-moving infectious threat, even as WHO members negotiate the first legally binding pandemic agreement. Their case was that preparedness now depends as much on early detection, engineered-biology safeguards, regional response capacity, trusted communication and global financing as on vaccines and stockpiles — and that several of those systems are being weakened at the same time they are supposed to be built.

The Aspen InstituteJun 25, 202620 min read