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Focus Areas

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

Lost in translation: the importance of addressing language inequities in global health security

Shaping the future US bioeconomy through safety, security, sustainability, and social responsibility

One Health Systems Assessment for Priority Zoonoses

Wastewater Collection and Sequencing as a Proactive Approach to Utilizing Threat Agnostic Biological Defense

The Model State Indoor Air Quality Act

Model State Indoor Air Quality Act

India–United States Track 1.5 Strategic Biosecurity Dialogue, Report from the Ninth Dialogue Session

Introduction to the Global Catastrophic Biological Risks Special Feature

Southeast Asia Strategic Multilateral Biosecurity Dialogue, Meeting Report from the 2023 Dialogue Session

Threat Net: A Metagenomic Surveillance Network for Biothreat Detection and Early Warning

The Origins of Covid-19 — Why It Matters (and Why It Doesn’t)

BWC assurance: increasing certainty in BWC compliance

COVID-19 has left the world less prepared for an influenza pandemic

Improving U.S. Biosafety and Biosecurity: Revisiting Recommendations from the Federal Experts Security Advisory Panel and the Fast Track Action Committee on Select Agent Regulations

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

Building Strong Biosafety and Biosecurity into the Expanding US Bioeconomy

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

The CommuniHealth Playbook: How to Spur on Your Local Community Health Sector

National Strategy for Improving Indoor Air Quality