What was the title of Bill Gates’s 2023 book about preventing future pandemics?

Bill Gates’s 2023 book about preventing future pandemics is titled How to Prevent the Next Pandemic.

Published by Knopf in May 2022, the book argues that the world should treat pandemic preparedness as a continuing security priority rather than an emergency response. Gates draws on the COVID-19 experience to discuss surveillance, vaccines, testing, health systems, and international coordination.

The title is sometimes confused with Gates’s earlier climate book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, which was published in 2021. The two books address different global risks: greenhouse-gas emissions in the earlier work and infectious-disease preparedness in the later one.

Gates’s interest in pandemic preparedness also appeared in his public speeches and foundation work before the book was released. The book’s central recommendation is that countries build permanent systems capable of detecting and containing outbreaks quickly.