Deborah Rosenblum, Executive Vice President at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, discusses the new Global Health Security Agenda and why it’s important for organizations focused on different threats (biological, nuclear, chemical) to work together on health security.

Dr. Kavita Berger, Associate Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Security Policy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, explains how the science and technology community can make a difference in the newly launched Global Health Security...

Dr. Tom Inglesby, Chief Executive Officer and Director of the UPMC Center for Health Security, discusses the newly launched Global Health Security Agenda and its likely impact on infectious disease programs internationally.

Read the White House's report, "The Global Health Security Agenda: Toward a World Safe and Secure from Infectious Disease Threats

Laura Holgate, Senior Director at the National Security Council discusses the White House launch of the new Global Health Security Agenda aimed at preventing or mitigating disease outbreaks.

Last December, 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported two cases of local transmission of Chikungunya in the French territory of St. Martin. Since then nearly 300 cases in the Caribbean have been reported. “Local transmission” means that the mosquitoes that...

Lina Sergie Attar discusses the Karam Foundation and its humanitarian aid efforts in Syria, particularly programs targeted toward displaced children. Karam means generosity in Arabic.

Dr. Zaher Sahloul, President of the Syrian American Medical Society, discusses the violence targeted toward doctors and other medical professionals in Syria and ongoing efforts to help them provide health care to Syrians.

With the establishment of Rossiya Segodnya, a new state-owned media conglomerate, Russia has added a new national champion to its ledgers and further consolidated control over the media. Critically, however, the creation of Rossiya Segodnya has also clarified the contours of...

On January 9, in an event that sparked high levels of interest, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center convened a conference focused on the first phase results and lessons learned from the Saving Mothers, Giving Life (SMGL) Initiative.