What We Measure / Pandemic Policy
Pandemic Policy
Pandemic policy was made quickly, at enormous scale, and under acute uncertainty. Five years on, the question is no longer what was intended but what resulted. CGHA measures which interventions improved health outcomes, which produced unintended consequences, and what the evidence should mean for future preparedness.
WHAT WE MEASURE
Did pandemic interventions improve health outcomes?
Which policies worked?
Which created unintended consequences?
What lessons should guide future preparedness?
The Great Avoidance
What Covid inquiries investigated — and what they did not.
The issue is not whether inquiries occurred. The issue is whether they investigated the decisions that mattered most. The project compares inquiries across countries: preparedness, lockdowns, school closures, mandates, the WHO, scientific dissent, and information governance — and maps the accountability gap between a policy's significance and the scrutiny it received.
The Inquiry Landscape
Major inquiries around the world
What They Investigated
Topic-by-topic comparison graphic
The Accountability Gap
Policy significance vs. scrutiny received
Country Profiles
Individual inquiries and outstanding questions
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RESEARCH
POLICY PAPERPOLICY PAPERRESEARCH REPORTRESEARCH NOTE
The Biodefense Trap
September 2026 · How the post-anthrax expansion of biodefense linked intelligence needs, research ambitions and public-health authority without building equally strong external oversight.
Vaccines: What Do the Data Say—and Can We Trust Them?
August 2026 · A product-specific assessment of vaccine benefits, risks and data integrity that separates mortality from incidence and tests claims across methods and jurisdictions.
Vaccine Uptake, System Legitimacy, and Institutional Exit After COVID-19
May 2026 · Distrust of pharmaceutical companies is high and broadly similar across political groups, yet uptake varies sharply.
The Great Avoidance
April 2026 · A flagship comparative review of Covid inquiries across countries and institutions: the decisions they scrutinized, the questions they left unresolved, and the lessons now shaping future pandemic governance.
CURRENT PROJECTS
The Great Avoidance
Montgomery County Vaccine Survey
Pandemic Preparedness Project
Trust in Institutions Project
SURVEYS & DATA
MEDIA & ANALYSIS
Appearances in this area will be listed here as they occur. Media archive →