Resources

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security’s SHIELD Initiative presents SPEAR: the Strategic Preparedness Exchange & Archive Repository, a living, practitioner-driven community and knowledge repository for preparedness professionals at the tip of the spear for public health, health care, and emergency management.

The Information Hub provides resources to assist users in complying with the US Framework for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening (Framework), which requires federal life sciences funding for synthetic nucleic acids and benchtop nucleic acid synthesis equipment to be used only through Providers and Manufacturers that comply with it.

A roundup of the top headlines on health security, pandemic preparedness, and an update from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, delivered via email monthly.

Descriptions of biological and chemical agents that have been used in the past for terrorism or are considered a serious threat, with basic information on transmission, diagnosis, treatment, and decontamination.

The Center is hosting a podcast to support BWC States Parties, policymakers and policy experts, and scientists understand advancements in biology and biotechnology and their impact on the Biological & Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC).

Health Security is a peer-reviewed journal providing research and essential guidance for protecting people's health before and after epidemics or disasters and for ensuring that communities are resilient to major challenges.

We analyzed and provided updates on the Mpox (monkeypox) outbreaks. 

Find tools, resources, and analysis related to the COVID-19 pandemic.