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![Ambassador-at-Large John Nkengasong, who will lead the State Department's Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy, speaks to the press about the new agency. He told NPR that the pandemic "taught us three key lessons. We are collectively more connected than we thought. We are more vulnerable than we thought. And we have [vast] inequities" when it comes to disease threats.<strong></strong>](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/18ac0b6/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2989x1665+0+164/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2023%2F08%2F03%2Fdr_-john-nkengasong2_custom-6999de0de0549cbba3a298aaab8e0d482f5b305a.jpg)
The Bureau of Global Health, Security and Diplomacy, housed in the State Department, will plan for the next pandemic. We interviewed its director, virologist and global health leader John Nkengasong. -
The pandemic has hurt even routine health services, like vaccines and checkups, as well as immunization outreach, for children around the world, the World Health Organization and UNICEF report. -
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![Ambassador-at-Large John Nkengasong, who will lead the State Department's Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy, speaks to the press about the new agency. He told NPR that the pandemic "taught us three key lessons. We are collectively more connected than we thought. We are more vulnerable than we thought. And we have [vast] inequities" when it comes to disease threats.<strong></strong>](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/af65ca8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2989x1665+0+164/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2023%2F08%2F03%2Fdr_-john-nkengasong2_custom-6999de0de0549cbba3a298aaab8e0d482f5b305a.jpg)
