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Former high-ranking US government officials and a current US congresswoman will play a team of presidential advisors tasked with leading the policy response to a fictional outbreak scenario in the upcoming Clade X pandemic tabletop exercise hosted by the Center for Health Security.

India and the United States would benefit from a shared approach to encourage scientific innovation while preventing the misuse of cutting-edge research, say biosecurity experts from those 2 countries.

The health sector in the US would be far better positioned to manage medical care needs during emergencies of any scale by empowering existing healthcare coalitions to connect community resilience efforts with a network of hospitals equipped to handle disasters, according to a new report by the Center for Health Security.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security has accepted a diverse group of 28 professionals and scholars into the 2018 class of the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Fellowship (ELBI) program.

At a US Senate committee hearing on the reauthorization of landmark public health preparedness legislation, Center for Health Security Director Tom Inglesby, MD, highlighted key initiatives that ought to be policy priorities for lawmakers when they consider how the United States can better prepare for and respond to a range of major public health threats.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security has received a $399,000 grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to create a resilience checklist and implementation guide that health systems can use to assess whether they are prepared to maintain essential functions during an emergency.

Rapid advancements in biotechnology necessitate more strategic collaboration between the US and India on issues of biosecurity, say experts from those 2 countries who met this fall as part of an ongoing bilateral dialogue convened by the Center for Health Security.

A delegation of staff from the Center for Health Security is attending the 2017 Meeting of States Parties to the BWC at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Additional US government funding to support the Global Health Security Agenda is needed to protect the world from epidemic disease, write three authors from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in a JAMA article published this week.

The Center for Health Security will host a pandemic tabletop exercise on May 15, 2018, to illustrate high-level strategic decisions and policies that the US and the world will need to pursue in order to prevent a severe pandemic, or diminish its consequences should prevention fail.