J. Stephen Morrison

Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center
J. Stephen Morrison

J. Stephen Morrison is a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and directs its Global Health Policy Center. Through several high-level commissions, he has shaped decisions in Congress and the administration on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health and gender equality, and health security, including pandemic preparedness. Since 2018, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security has addressed the evolving challenges of Covid-19 and the tests of U.S. leadership, at home and abroad. Morrison has led global health security fora at the annual Munich Security Conference. He directed The New Barbarianism, an award-winning documentary on violence against the health sector. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he has directed six episodes of the CSIS video series Ukraine: The Human Price of War. His podcast series, Coronavirus Crisis Update, has issued over 150 episodes. Since 2021, he has been the James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. He is a trustee of the China Medical Board and a member of advisory boards to the International Division at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Humanitarian Health. He served in the Clinton administration on the secretary of state’s Policy Planning Staff and on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa. He taught for 12 years at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, holds a PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale College.

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The CommonHealth

Adam Havey, Emergent BioSolutions: “Lead with the facts.”

Adam Havey speaks to the “great unwinding” with the end of the Public Health Emergency, including the outstanding work to bring about adequate sustained funding for preparedness capabilities.

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — May 26, 2023

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The Impossible State

Unpacking North Korea’s Isolation - The CommonHealth Crossover Episode

In a crossover episode with CSIS's The CommonHealth, Dr. Victor Cha is joined by J. Stephen Morrison to discuss an update on what we know, suspect, and do not know about North Korea still in extreme isolation from the rest of the world.

Podcast Episode by Victor Cha and J. Stephen Morrison — April 24, 2023

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The CommonHealth

Prof. Victor Cha: Unpacking North Korea’s isolation

We sit down again with Victor Cha for an update on what we know, suspect, and do not know about a North Korea still in extreme isolation from the rest of the world; the status of its Covid outbreak and response; the heightened risk of famine; and the burgeoning exchange of North Korean weapons and ammunition in return for Russian food and energy.

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison and Victor Cha — April 13, 2023

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The CommonHealth

Admiral Raquel Bono (ret.): At the pandemic’s front face in Washington State

Dr. Raquel Bono, a recently retired, highly accomplished 3-star Admiral as 2020 opened, unexpectedly found herself advising Washington State Governor Inslee at the very advent of the pandemic. What did she experience and learn over the next six and a half months? 

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — March 30, 2023

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