Focus Areas

Emerging Infectious Diseases and Epidemics

Our Center advances priorities and strategies to prepare for, respond to, and recover from large-scale epidemics of natural or deliberate origin.

Recent Projects

Indoor Air Quality
Supported by: Open Philanthropy Project

Protecting Critical Infrastructure from the Next Pandemic
Supported by: Open Philanthropy Project

CommuniHealth – Strategies for Standing Up, Strengthening, and Sustaining the Local Community Health Sector (a.k.a. CommuniVax 2.0)
Supported by: Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Metrics for Holistic Recovery Among the Worst-Off Survivors of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Supported by: Open Philanthropy Project

Seasonal Influenza Disease Burden Estimator
Supported by: World Health Organization

CommuniVax: A Coalition to Strengthen the Community’s Involvement in an Equitable Vaccination Rollout
Supported by: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Working Group on Readying Populations for COVID-19 Vaccine
Supported by: National Science Foundation-funded CONVERGE Initiative

Recent Publications

Response to the US Senate Request for Information (RFI) on PAHPA Reauthorization, as Submitted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

National Advisory Committee Meeting on Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security’s Model State Indoor Air Quality Act

Response to the US House Request for Information (RFI) on PAHPA Reauthorization, as Submitted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

High Primary COVID-19 Vaccine Series Completion by People Who Inject Drugs When Colocating Services at a Syringe Services Van
Journal of Addiction Medicine

Post-Pandemic Recovery: From What, For Whom, and How?

Analyzing Social Media Messaging on Masks and Vaccines: A Case Study on Misinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

In-home healthcare worker COVID-19 vaccination awareness, access, and acceptability—An online focus group study
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society