Michaela Simoneau

Associate Fellow, Global Health Policy Center
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Michaela Simoneau

Michaela Simoneau is an associate fellow for global health security with the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She manages the secretariat of the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security and formerly managed the secretariat of the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security, both groups of senior experts charged with generating bipartisan recommendations to strengthen U.S. and global pandemic preparedness and response policy. This work has included reviews of U.S. agency health security capabilities, multilateral financing, the health needs of vulnerable populations living in the midst of conflict, and the risks and opportunities of emerging biotechnology. In prior roles at CSIS she coordinated projects on vaccine confidence and misinformation, routine immunization, and polio eradication. Ms. Simoneau is a member of the 2023 class of the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity (ELBI) fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Before joining CSIS, she supported research concerning antimicrobial stewardship, the rights of migrants and refugees, and maternal and child health in Coimbatore, India. She holds a BS in biology and international studies from Boston College, where she completed a thesis on the Rohingya refugee crisis.

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