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The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security will build upon and continually update The COVID-19 Testing Toolkit, a comprehensive website focused on COVID-19 testing and testing services, for a second year.

Today, Dr. Tom Inglesby begins a temporary assignment at the White House on the COVID-19 response team; in January, he will assume the role of senior advisor for testing.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security released a new report finding that the failure to bring primary care providers into a frontline role as responders to the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside the public health system, resulted in many missed opportunities to provide better quality care, faster testing, more effective contact tracing, greater acceptance of vaccination, and better communication with patients.

Dr. Amesh Adalja provided expert testimony at a hearing at the Pennsylvania General Assembly on COVID-19 treatment options today.

Amesh Adalja, MD provided expert testimony at a congressional hearing about strengthening biosecurity and biosurveillance practices and systems.

Despite important steps taken by countries to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, all countries—across all income levels—remain dangerously unprepared to meet future epidemic and pandemic threats, according to the new 2021 Global Health Security (GHS) Index.

The CommuniVax Coalition released a new report that recounts progress made toward greater equity in the COVID-19 vaccination campaign and proposes steps to advance gains further.

The CommuniVax Coalition released 2 new local reports that share findings from rapid research about COVID-19 vaccination within African American/Black communities in Virginia.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and The Council on Foreign Relations released a new report urging governments, multilateral and international institutions, and private actors to act immediately to strengthen planning for future pandemic vaccines by incorporating lessons learned from successes and failures of the current global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.

The CommuniVax Coalition released a new local report that shares findings from rapid research within Hispanic/Latino communities in Baltimore, Maryland.