
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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Biden plans to pick Mandy Cohen to lead CDC
J. Stephen Morrison in Stat — June 2, 2023
Three years later, a look at the pandemic's toll
J. Stephen Morrison in The Washington Post — May 12, 2023
How to Overhaul the C.D.C.
J. Stephen Morrison in The New York Times — May 7, 2023
WHS Regional Meeting 2023 - The Transatlantic Alliance and Health
J. Stephen Morrison in World Health Summit — April 21, 2023
Where is the White House’s new pandemic response office?
J. Stephen Morrison in Stat News — April 6, 2023
The Origins of Covid
J. Stephen Morrison in BBC's Americast — March 3, 2023
A bipartisan approach to pandemic security? It’s within reach
J. Stephen Morrison in Stat — February 27, 2023
'Ukraine: The Human Price of War'
J. Stephen Morrison in UVA Miller Center — February 23, 2023
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Matthew Goodman, CSIS: a dramatic G7 Hiroshima Summit
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison and Matthew P. Goodman — June 2, 2023

Adam Havey, Emergent BioSolutions: “Lead with the facts.”
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — May 26, 2023

Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House Covid Response Coordinator: Pandemic wartime is over, the “great unwinding” is fully on.
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — May 17, 2023

Joe Grogan: “Worried about the war that we are waging against innovators who have the audacity to be successful.”
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison and H. Andrew Schwartz — May 12, 2023

Thomas Bollyky, CFR: The roots of the US Covid catastrophe—“a syndemic of politics and race.”
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison and H. Andrew Schwartz — May 4, 2023

Unpacking North Korea’s Isolation - The CommonHealth Crossover Episode
Podcast Episode by Victor Cha and J. Stephen Morrison — April 24, 2023

Sachiko Imoto, SVP, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)—the alignment of Japan-U.S. health security priorities
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — April 21, 2023

Prof. Victor Cha: Unpacking North Korea’s isolation
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison and Victor Cha — April 13, 2023

Professor Jennifer Nuzzo: “I am glad we are having this conversation” on school closures.
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison and H. Andrew Schwartz — April 6, 2023

Admiral Raquel Bono (ret.): At the pandemic’s front face in Washington State
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — March 30, 2023
