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
Global health reform must continue amid new infectious disease threats
Collective action and legal mobilisation for the right to health in the climate crisis
A pandemic agreement is within reach
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
The 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
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