Center for Health Security announces fellows accepted to Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative class of 2025

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January 7, 2025 – The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security has accepted 31 professionals into its Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative (ELBI) fellowship program for 2025. This incredibly accomplished and diverse class was chosen from 300+ applicants through a rigorous selection process. Throughout the year, new fellows will attend 3 multi-day workshops and additional in-person networking opportunities with some of the top minds in domestic and global health security.  

Now in its twelfth year, the highly competitive part-time ELBI fellowship program inspires and connects the next generation of leaders and innovators in the biosecurity community. The program is an opportunity for talented career professionals to deepen their expertise, expand their network, and build their leadership skills through a series of sponsored events coordinated by the Center. This fellowship boasts more than 300 alumni who come from government, defense, private industry, science, law, public health, medicine, global health, journalism, the social sciences, and academia.  

The 2025 ELBI Fellows are:  

  • Adam Abdullahi, University of Cambridge/Harvard School of Public Health  
  • Almuntaser Albalawi, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) 
  • Bailey Archey, Office of U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith  
  • Aurelia Attal-Juncqua, RAND 
  • Dev Basumallik, National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology 
  • Christopher Clifford, George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates 
  • Katherine Dammer, National Security Council & George Mason University 
  • Daniel Donachie, World Organisation for Animal Health  
  • Marisa Donnelly, Biobot Analytics; Your Local Epidemiologist  
  • Simon Grimm, SecureBio 
  • Moritz Hanke, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 
  • Corinna Hartung, European Commission 
  • Olivia Iannone, ANSER 
  • Harsh Lata, World Health Organization 
  • Anne Liu, Exemplars in Global Health 
  • Janet Marroquin Pineda, George Mason University 
  • Toby McMaster, UK Cabinet Office 
  • Bianca Michaud, Johns Hopkins University/U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) 
  • Richard Moulange, Centre for Long-Term Resilience 
  • Caroline Nguyen, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 
  • Ifeanyi Omah, University of Edinburgh  
  • Geoffrey Otim, SynBio Africa 
  • Jake Pencharz, UK AI Safety Institute  
  • Alanna B. Pugliese, Office of Management and Budget 
  • Genevieve Rogers, DoD Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Health Readiness Policy & Oversight. Horizon Biosecurity Fellow 
  • Neil Jan Saad Duque, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance 
  • Janika Schmitt, Institute for Progress / Sentinel Bio 
  • Konstantin Sietzy, European Commission 
  • Ryan Teo, University of Birmingham 
  • Adriana Vitagliano, firstminute capital 
  • Brandon F. Young, CSL Seqirus 

Amanda K. Mui, Alexander Linder, Ben Wakefield, Hannah Ottman-Feeney, Andrea Lapp, and Adrianne Carroll manage the ELBI fellowship program. The program is supported by the Open Philanthropy Project.  

  

About the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security:  
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security works to protect people from epidemics and disasters and build resilient communities through innovative scholarship, engagement, and research that strengthens the organizations, systems, policies, and programs essential to preventing and responding to public health crises. The Center is part of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD.