The new Bill Gates book on pandemic prevention will come out in two days, and I believe it should be of interest to the community. You can read the presentation blog post and an excerpt.
The central idea in the summary of the book is to have a team of dedicated experts from a variety of backgrounds, called the Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization (GERM) team dedicated to surveillance, to make sure any infectious disease that appears can be contained within the first 100 days, and avoid becoming a pandemic.
I think the marginal value of a pre-order of What We Owe the Future is much higher than a pre-order of Gates's book, as Gates's book has a much higher baseline probability of ending up as a bestseller and receiving significant press coverage thanks to Gates's fame.