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The Center recently co-hosted the 2019 meeting of the Strategic Multilateral Dialogue on Biosecurity with the Thailand Ministry of Public Health Department of Disease Control in Phuket, Thailand.

To date, the pharmaceutical response to emerging infectious diseases and bioterrorism has been characterized by a “one bug, one drug” approach, where specific medical countermeasures—effective vaccines and therapeutics—are developed, manufactured, and deployed, explain experts in a new report from the Center for Health Security.

A new report by a team of researchers at the Center for Health Security reframes the discussion of the most severe biological threats to provide policy advocates with an additional tool to help them catalyze expansive international support for work on pandemic prevention and response.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security has accepted 30 professionals and scholars into its Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative (ELBI) fellowship program for 2019.

A bipartisan group of US House members introduced The Global Health Security Act today in an effort to reaffirm US commitment to promoting global health security.

A delegation of staff from the Center for Health Security is attending the 2018 Meeting of States Parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, from December 4-7.

Scholars from the Center for Health Security joined an international group of more than 40 science and technical experts at a three-day meeting in the UK to consider new approaches for preventing, managing, and mitigating the most serious biological threats.

Successful containment of the ongoing Ebola virus disease outbreak in the DRC hinges on the return to the region of US CDC personnel and an immediate ramping up of international financial commitments to the WHO, write two Center for Health Security researchers in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine.

As governments throughout the world develop and implement national action plans to increase their capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to health emergencies, experts at the US CDC and partners are working to develop a scientifically grounded evidence base of effective and measurable global health security interventions that can help guide future efforts.

In extensive comments about the ongoing outbreak of Ebola in the DRC, Robert Redfield, MD, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, emphasized that security concerns in the region are the preeminent factor hindering US response.