1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Preventing Future Pandemics Act of 2020 . 2. Wildlife market defined In this Act, the term wildlife market — (1) means a commercial market that— (A) sells or slaughters terrestrial, including avian, wildlife for human consumption as food or medicine, whether the animals originated in the wild or in a captive environment; and (B) delivers a product in communities where alternative nutritional or protein sources are available; and (2) does not include markets in areas where no other practical alternative sources of protein or meat exists, such as wildlife markets in rural areas on which indigenous people rely to feed themselves and their families. 3. Study on risk of wildlife markets on the emergence of novel viral pathogens Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall seek to enter into an agreement with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine under which the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine agrees to— (1) conduct a study to evaluate— (A) the impact of physical proximity and consumption of terrestrial wildlife as food or medicine on the emergence of viral and other microbial pathogens; (B) the impact of consumption of terrestrial wildlife as food or medicine on the transmission of novel viral and other microbial pathogens; (C) the role consumption of terrestrial wildlife as food or medicine has on the transmission of microbes from animals to humans; and (D) the conditions at live wildlife markets that lead to transmission of zoonotic diseases