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The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security has released a new report to provide public health principles to governors for a phased economic reopening: “Public Health Principles for a Phased Reopening During COVID-19: Guidance for Governors.”

The Center for Health Security and its partner, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), have released a new report: “A National Plan to Enable Comprehensive COVID-19 Case Finding and Contact Tracing in the US.”

Dr. Tara Kirk Sell provided testimony at a hearing held by the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

Dr. Tom Inglesby provided testimony at an open congressional hearing on COVID-19.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security has accepted 30 professionals and scholars into its Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative (ELBI) fellowship program for 2020.

Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo provided testimony at the first open congressional hearing on the 2019-nCoV outbreak.

In October 2019, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted a pandemic tabletop exercise called Event 201 with partners, the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The next severe pandemic will not only cause great illness and loss of life but could also trigger major cascading economic and societal consequences that could contribute greatly to global impact and suffering.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security has been officially designated as a “Collaborating Centre for Global Health Security” by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

A new Global Health Security Index released today, the first comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities across 195 countries, suggests that not a single country in the world is fully prepared to handle an epidemic or pandemic.