
J. Stephen Morrison, PhD, 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. Currently, the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security is addressing critical post-Covid challenges. Since 2018, 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 seven episodes of the CSIS video series Ukraine: The Human Price of War. He cohosts the weekly podcast series The CommonHealth. From 2021 to 2023, he served as the James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. He is a trustee of the China Medical Board, a member of the board of the Rostropovich Vishnevskaya Foundation, 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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Trump's drive to reshape government threatens bird flu response
J. Stephen Morrison in NBC — February 15, 2025
Trump’s anger toward World Health Organization may reshape global health, politics
J. Stephen Morrison in The Washington Post — January 23, 2025
Becerra, With No Regrets, Defends Vaccine Mandates and Misinformation Fight
J. Stephen Morrison in The New York Times — January 18, 2025
Eyeing Potential Bird Flu Outbreak, Biden Administration Ramps Up Preparedness
J. Stephen Morrison in The New York Times — January 2, 2025
Eyeing Potential Bird Flu Outbreak, Biden Administration Ramps Up Preparedness
J. Stephen Morrison, Maclane Speer, Sophia Hirshfield, and Michaela Simoneau in The New York Times — January 2, 2025
How America lost control of the bird flu, setting the stage for another pandemic
J. Stephen Morrison in CNN — December 24, 2024
Skin infections and hepatitis spread as Gazans resort to drinking and bathing in contaminated water
J. Stephen Morrison in NBC — August 10, 2024
‘They miscalculated’: Gaza’s floating aid pier failing to deliver in rough seas
J. Stephen Morrison in The Guardian — June 23, 2024
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Joe Grogan: “The societal divisions that Covid opened were terrifying.”
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — July 11, 2025

A New Era in Health Security
Brief by J. Stephen Morrison, Michaela Simoneau, Katherine E. Bliss, Enoh T. Ebong, and Elizabeth "Beth" Cameron, Paul Friedrichs, Stephanie Psaki, Stewart Simonson, Thomas Cullison, Nikolaj Gilbert, Heidi J. Larson, Raj Panjabi, Carolyn Reynolds, Leonard Rubenstein, Jeffrey Sturchio — July 11, 2025
Fabrizio Carboni, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): "I had to face what it meant to be on a battlefield."
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — July 3, 2025

Takeaways from Gavi Replenishment | The CommonHealth Live!
Event — July 1, 2025
Takeaways from Gavi Replenishment | The CommonHealth Live!
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison and Katherine E. Bliss — July 1, 2025

Summit on Resilient U.S. Medical Supply Chains
Event — June 16, 2025
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYT health policy correspondent: HHS Secretary Kennedy may run for President in 2028
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — June 5, 2025

Helen Branswell, Stat News infectious diseases and global health reporter: “Is the solution making it harder for individuals to get vaccines?”
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — May 29, 2025

Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO: “We would welcome a dialogue with the (Trump) administration.”
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — May 20, 2025

PEPFAR’s Golden Era Is Over. It Urgently Needs a Five-Year Transition Plan
Critical Questions by Jirair Ratevosian, J. Stephen Morrison, and Katherine E. Bliss — May 16, 2025