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Our Mission

Protect people’s health from the consequences of epidemics and disasters
and ensure that communities are resilient to major challenges.
Mission Area

Global Health Security

Enhancing international cooperation and collaboration to prevent epidemics and improve disease detection, surveillance, and response.
Mission Area

Infectious Disease & Epidemics

Advancing priorities and strategies to prepare for, respond to, and recover from large-scale epidemics of natural or deliberate origin.
Mission Area

Disaster Prep & Response

Providing decision makers with analysis and recommendations needed
to prepare for and respond to disasters that threaten the public’s health.
Mission Area

Bio, Chem & Nuclear Threats

Identifying, analyzing, and informing leaders about new and emerging threats to the public's health and security.
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Science & Policy

Enhancing understanding of the relationships among the life sciences, national security, and the public's health.

Our Mission
Global Health Security
Infectious Disease & Epidemics
Disaster Prep & Response
Bio, Chem & Nuclear Threats
Science & Policy

Clade X: A Pandemic Exercise

The Center hosted a pandemic tabletop exercise in May 2018 to illustrate high-level strategic decisions and policies needed to prevent a pandemic or diminish its consequences should prevention fail

Call for Papers: Progress in High-Level Isolation for the Care of Patients with High-Consequence Infectious Diseases

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Terrorism and Political Violence Journal

Red Teaming the Biological Sciences for Deliberate Threats

This article describes the use of “red teaming” to analyze and forecast biological threats to US national security, and proposes additional analytical tools for future red team exercises. Read more

Lessons from the domestic Ebola response

Lessons from the domestic Ebola response: Improving health care system resilience to high consequence infectious diseases

This paper presents the findings from a research project that derived evidence-based recommendations and an actionable checklist to strengthen resilience to HCID events across the health sector. Read more

Atlantic Council

Building a Smart Partnership for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

This article analyzes the trends driving the development of advanced biotechnologies, and notes that biology is becoming more industrialized and economically powerful. Read more

CENTER NEWS

Clade X pandemic exercise highlights policies needed to prevent or reduce the worst possible outcomes in future pandemics

Study by Center for Health Security identifies characteristics of microorganisms most likely to cause a global pandemic

STAFF IN THE NEWS

Washington Post

This mock pandemic killed 150 million people. Next time it might not be a drill.

New York Times

As D.I.Y. gene editing gains popularity, ‘Someone is going to get hurt’

UK Telegraph

Is this the face of Disease X? The deadly pathogens which could cause the next global pandemic

Health Security Headlines

Daily news and developments
in global health security.

Preparedness Pulsepoints

Monitoring US government action in preparedness and response.

the bifurcated needle

Recent Posts:

To identify pandemic pathogens, diagnose every case

Modernizing epidemiology through outbreak science

Clinicians' Biosecurity News

Analysis of advances and challenges in clinical biosecurity.

The Etiology of Sepsis in Uganda

Amesh Adalja, June 6, 2018

The Essential Elements of Pandemic Pathogens

Amesh Adalja, May 21, 2018

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