Elizabeth "Beth" Cameron

Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Cameron is a professor of the practice and senior advisor to the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health. Beth is a global leader in health security and biodefense. She spent two tours on the White House National Security Council staff, twice helping establish and lead the Directorate on Global Health Security and Biodefense. In this role she built and led a robust team focused, every day, on leaning forward to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to biological crises. Beth held senior posts at USAID and the Departments of State and Defense, where she oversaw biological and chemical security efforts. She was an architect of NTI | bio, a program of the Nuclear Threat Initiative aimed at countering biological catastrophes, and she served at the American Cancer Society. She got her start in government as an AAAS fellow at the State Department and in the office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Beth holds a Ph.D. in Biology from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in Biology from the University of Virginia (UVA). She is a practitioner senior fellow of the UVA Miller Center and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.