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
Media Coverage
CNN.com: Why contact tracing was a missed opportunity to save lives in the US, feat. Crystal Watson, DrPH
Bloomberg: Delta Variant Hospitalizations Not on Good Trend: Johns Hopkins [Video], feat. Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH
The New York Times: Olympics Virus Cases Raise Tricky Questions About Testing, feat. Amesh Adalja, MD
The Washington Post: White House officials debate masking push as covid infections spike, feat. Caitlin Rivers, PhD
TIME: How Tokyo Olympics Officials Are Working to Keep Athletes on the Field Even as Infections Pile Up, feat. Tara Kirk Sell, PhD
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.
