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Advances in the biological sciences bring about wellbeing for humanity, but the same advances could be misused, particularly for the development and proliferation of biological weapons.

The CommuniVax Coalition released a new report that outlines findings from local research within Black and Hispanic/Latino communities in Alabama, California, Idaho, Maryland, and Virginia and provides specific guidance to government officials on adapting COVID-19 vaccination efforts to achieve greater vaccine coverage in underserved populations and, through this, to develop sustainable, locally appropriate mechanisms to advance equity in health.

Dr. Gigi Gronvall provided expert testimony at a hearing at the California State Assembly on gene synthesis security today.

As the U.S. Congress continues to respond to and begin recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, they must also prepare for the next pandemic, which could appear at any time.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security joined 24 other stakeholder organizations to submit a letter of support to strongly encourage Congressional leaders to invest $30 billion over 4 years to better protect Americans from future pandemics.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the Bloomberg School of Public Health announce the publication of a new supplemental issue of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security on systemic racism, US health security, and COVID-19.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security released a new report calling on kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) school administrators to urgently invest in ways to provide healthy air in schools to increase safety during the COVID-19 pandemic and potential future respiratory disease outbreaks, as well as to improve student learning.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security has been awarded a $400,000 USD grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to identify and showcase successful country responses to COVID-19, in partnership with Exemplars in Global Health.

The fight against COVID-19 is not over. This pandemic has taught painful lessons about the need for clarity and consistency across institutions and jurisdictions about invoking crisis standards of care (CSC) and the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has had on historically minoritized and marginalized populations.

Caitlin Rivers, PhD, provided testimony at a congressional hearing on the variants SARS-CoV-2 that have emerged and the urgent need to continue to scale up genomic sequencing of COVID-19 cases in the United States.