Rwanda

We choose ... to build more effective responses to pandemic threats Launched in 2022, the Covid Treatment QuickStart Consortium grew out of an urgent need to aid countries still feeling the grip of Covid-19 by scaling up access to testing and treatment. But even then, the brain trust behind the effort — which is spearheaded by Duke researchers and includes a host of public- and private-sector partners — had a bigger vision.“We saw an opportunity to partner with countries and strengthen their response to an ongoing health crisis,” says Krishna Udayakumar, M.D., a DGHI professor and director of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center, an implementing partner of QuickStart. “But at the same time, doing so lays the groundwork for building more resilient health systems that can better handle future…