Global Health Security
The Center works to enhance international cooperation and science diplomacy to prevent epidemics and improve disease detection, surveillance, and response.
Recent Projects
The BWC Global Forum: Biotech, Biosecurity & Beyond
Supported by: Open Philanthropy Project
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
International Guidelines for Biosecurity Ethics
Supported by: The Office of Foreign Consequence Management, US Department of State
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
Maximizing the US Bioeconomy for Economic Growth and National Security
Supported by: Open Philanthropy Project
Boosting NATO Resilience to Biological Threats
Supported by: Open Philanthropy Project
International Biosafety Norms
Supported by: Open Philanthropy Project
PASCC US - India Biosecurity Dialogue
Supported by: Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), Naval Postgraduate School, Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering WMD
Southeast Asia Strategic Biosecurity Dialogue
Supported by: Defense Threat Reduction Agency, US Department of Defense
Recent Publications
Building Strong Biosafety and Biosecurity into the Expanding US Bioeconomy
Identifying Operational Challenges and Solutions During the COVID-19 Response Among US Public Health Laboratories
J Public Health Manag Pract. 2022
Retrospective identification of key activities in Uganda’s preparedness measures related to the 2018–2020 EVD outbreak in eastern DRC utilizing a framework evaluation tool
PLOS Global Public Health 2(5): e0000428
United States-India Strategic Dialogue on Biosecurity, Report from the Eighth Dialogue Session
Disparities in SARS-CoV-2 Testing for Hispanic/Latino Populations: An Analysis of State-Published Demographic Data
J Public Health Manag Pract
COVID-19 Vaccination and Communicable Disease Testing Services’ Integration Within a Syringe Services Program
Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
Analysing COVID-19 outcomes in the context of the 2019 Global Health Security (GHS) Index
BMJ Global Health 2021;6:e007581
A Waypoint on the Path to Health Equity: COVID-19 Vaccination at Month 11