Pandemic Tabletop Exercise Event 201

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Event 201

In October 2019, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted a pandemic tabletop exercise called Event 201 with partners, the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Just two months after the New York simulation,
China announced the first case of COVID-19 on December 31, 2019.

 
“Key participants at the table were representatives of the Johns Hopkins Center, the Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum, which were the institutions sponsoring the exercise. (Governments also conduct their own simulation exercises; the press recently reported on a Trump Administration drill called “Crimson Contagion.”)
 
Missing from Event 201 were legislators; representatives of small and medium-sized businesses; labor; social media; religious leaders; and civil society unaffiliated with intergovernmental and corporate organizations. In short, the participants were a heavyweight group of corporate executives, policymakers, and health officials. Left out were representatives from many sectors likely to be hardest hit by such a scenario.”
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Another source of this “Event 201”
Event 201 A Global Pandemic Exercise – Event 201 videos
On the page of Center for Health and Security

“Event 201 was a 3.5-hour pandemic tabletop exercise that simulated a series of dramatic, scenario-based facilitated discussions, confronting difficult, true-to-life dilemmas associated with response to a hypothetical, but scientifically plausible, pandemic. 15 global business, government, and public health leaders were players in the simulation exercise that highlighted unresolved real-world policy and economic issues that could be solved with sufficient political will, financial investment, and attention now and in the future.

The exercise consisted of pre-recorded news broadcasts, live “staff” briefings, and moderated discussions on specific topics. These issues were carefully designed in a compelling narrative that educated the participants and the audience.”

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Videos of Event 201

These five segments include discussions among
high-level leaders of global businesses, governments, policy and public health.
(Length ~ 3 hours)

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EVENT 201, A Global Pandemic Exercise – Recommendations Proposed

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation jointly propose these recommendations.

PUBLIC-PRIVATE COOPERATION FOR PANDEMIC
PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE
A CALL TO ACTION

Download the recommendations

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