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The Center for Health Security will host a pandemic tabletop exercise on May 15, 2018, to illustrate high-level strategic decisions and policies that the US and the world will need to pursue in order to prevent a severe pandemic, or diminish its consequences should prevention fail.

Strategic changes to government policy would present new opportunities for pharmacies in the US to expand their already important role in critical initiatives that benefit public health.

Experts from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security are available to media for interviews on the centennial of the 1918 influenza pandemic.

The Center for Health Security has released a self-guided exercise scenario for public health communicators and risk communication researchers eager to deepen their understanding of the communication dilemmas that could arise when medical countermeasures are developed and distributed during a pandemic.

In June 2017, the Center for Health Security in partnership with Drew Endy, PhD, brought together 32 emerging biosecurity leaders from all over the world for a fellowship program at the 7th International Meeting on Synthetic Biology (SB7.0) in Singapore.

The Center for Health Security has published the first working definition of Global Catastrophic Biological Risks (GCBRs) to place new focus on a special category of biological risks that have received too limited research and effort given their potential for harm to humanity.

The Center for Health Security gathered biosecurity experts from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the US at a meeting to identify shared priorities that underscore the dynamic and challenging biosecurity issues facing countries in Southeast Asia.

More than 50 public and private sector biosecurity stakeholders gathered at a meeting convened by the Center for Health Security to engage in a discussion about US biodefense capabilities and offer recommendations for the forthcoming National Biodefense Strategy and Implementation Plan.

Even the most serious health security threats facing the US and the world will remain far from intractable with continued federal investment in the people and programs on the front lines of preparedness.

A new report by the Center for Health Security has found that proposed funding in President Donald Trump’s budget request for FY2018 would cut health security programs by an estimated $1.25 billion, or 9 percent.