JHSPH Center for Health Security

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.
Mission Area

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

MULTILATERAL STRATEGIC DIALOGUE ON BIOSECURITY

The Center for Health Security published the meeting report for the 2017 multilateral biosecurity dialogue meeting with participants from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia & the US and observers from Philippines and Thailand.

SPECIAL FEATURE: HEALTH SECURITY MEMOS TO THE NEW ADMINISTRATION AND CONGRESS

The team at the JHU Center for Health Security offer policy analysis and recommendations to the incoming Administration and the new Congress.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS & events

National Biodefense Strategy Meeting

The Center convened more than 50 public and private sector biosecurity stakeholders for a discussion on recommendations for the forthcoming National Biodefense Strategy and Implementation Plan. Read more

Federal funding for Health Security Programs in President’s FY18 Budget Request

This analysis 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, the largest decrease in more than a decade. Read more

Health Sector Resilience Checklist for High-Consequence Infectious Diseases

Analysis of the local response to confirmed Ebola cases in Atlanta, Dallas, New York, and Omaha informed a checklist to improve the resilience of health sectors—public health, health care, EMS, elected officials—to high-consequence infectious diseases. Read more