News

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security regularly engages local, national, and international media for stories and commentary on timely, highly relevant issues in the health security field. Our expertise, projects, research, and events focus on:

Global Health Security
Emerging Infectious Diseases and Epidemics
Medical and Public Health Preparedness and Response
Deliberate Biological Threats
Opportunities and Risks in the Life Sciences

Center News

May 26: New Report: School Ventilation: A Vital Tool to Reduce COVID-19 Spread

May 25: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security receives a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to deliver COVID-19 Response Research as part of the Exemplars in Global Health program

May 13: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and National Organizations Share Strategies to Improve Crisis Standards of Care Implementation During Future COVID-19 Surges and Beyond

May 12: Center for Health Security senior scholar Dr. Caitlin Rivers testifies at U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space & Technology on SARS-CoV-2 Variants

April 13: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Joins the COVID-19 Commission Planning Group

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Media Coverage

The Wall Street Journal: Covid-19 Vaccine Booster Shots Raise Tough Issues for Health Authorities, feat. Gigi Gronvall, PhD

NBC News Now: How schools can safely return to in-person learning [Video], feat. Amesh Adalja, MD

Vox: Vaccine passports can liberate America, feat. Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH

TIME: George Washington's Lesson for COVID-19 Vaccine Skeptics, feat. Tara Kirk Sell, PhD

The New York Times: So … When Should I Wear a Mask Now? [Opinion], cowritten by Caitlin Rivers, PhD

The Washington Post: A little scared of needles, but really happy to be vaccinated, feat. Eric Toner, MD

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Newsletters

Recent Newsletters

Clinicians' Biosecurity News

Bi-weekly update on clinical issues relevant to biosecurity and health security, available online and for e-mail delivery. Learn more about the CBN newsletter or visit the CBN website.

COVID-19

Updates on the emerging novel coronavirus from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

COVID-19 Vaccine Development, Policy, and Public Perception in the United States (CommuniVax Weekly Roundup)

This weekly newsletter pulls together news and research updates on the COVID-19 vaccines in the US. These updates are not all-inclusive, but they provide a summary of major updates impacting the US vaccine landscape. It supports CommuniVax, a research coalition convened by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Texas State University Department of Anthropology and funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Health Security Headlines

Daily update on important developments in health security, covering topics such as biosecurity and biodefense, medicine and public health, science and technology, domestic preparedness and response, government affairs and national security, and 21st century threats. Available through free subscription. Learn more about Health Security Headlines.

Preparedness Pulsepoints

A weekly update on USG action in readiness and response that highlights Congressional and agency activity—pending legislation, rulemaking, upcoming hearings, and other policy developments—in 4 key topic areas: public health emergency preparedness and response, homeland security and domestic preparedness, radiological and nuclear disaster preparedness, and science and technology policy. Available through free subscription. Learn more about Preparedness Pulsepoints.

Blogs

Outbreak Observatory

Outbreak Observatory aims to collect information on challenges and solutions associated with outbreak response and share it broadly with the public health preparedness and response communities to allow others to learn from these experiences in order to improve global outbreak response capabilities.

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