The CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security

The CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security convenes an esteemed group of members of Congress, senior leaders, and subject matter experts to advance concrete, pragmatic policy options to strengthen the health security of the United States and the world. Its work covers how the United States can best position itself on a range of issues including emerging outbreaks, the risks and opportunities of biotechnology innovation, the legacy of U.S. investments in global immunizations and the fight against infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, and global health diplomacy that advances U.S. national interests amid intensifying geopolitical competition. Through rigorous scholarship and a commitment to bipartisanship, the group works to define a new vision for sustained U.S. leadership, with integrated programming, strong accountability measures, and enhanced partnerships and alliances across sectors and around the world. Building on the record of prior CSIS initiatives, the alliance delivers recommendations on global health security policy and programs to key decisionmakers in the U.S. Congress, the executive branch, and nongovernmental organizations to guide debates over institutional reform.

Launched in spring, 2023, the effort is cochaired by Senator Richard Burr, principal policy advisor and chair of the Health Policy Strategic Consulting Practice at DLA Piper and former senator from North Carolina, and Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, CEO of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health and former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The alliance includes over 60 members who are opinion leaders in the life sciences, public health, security, foreign policy, industry, and philanthropy; and a senior advisory group, including experts who formerly served in the Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations. J. Stephen Morrison, PhD, senior vice president and founder/director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, sets the alliance’s strategic direction and directs its work on pandemic preparedness and response. Katherine E. Bliss, PhD, senior fellow and director of immunizations and health systems resilience with the Global Health Policy Center, directs its work on HIV and routine immunizations. Michaela Simoneau, fellow, leads the alliance’s secretariat.

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Meet our co-chairs, members, and senior advisers of the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security.

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Photo: Liz Lynch

The Alliance is made possible by the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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A New Era in Health Security

Brief by J. Stephen Morrison, Michaela Simoneau, Katherine E. Bliss, Enoh T. Ebong, Elizabeth "Beth" Cameron, Paul Friedrichs, Stephanie Psaki, Stewart Simonson, Thomas Cullison, Nikolaj Gilbert, Heidi J. Larson, Raj Panjabi, Carolyn Reynolds, Leonard Rubenstein, and Jeffrey Sturchio — July 11, 2025

Vaccine Exemptions for Kids Are on the Rise

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CSIS Charts — May 20, 2025

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Katherine E. Bliss

Katherine E. Bliss

Director and Senior Fellow, Immunizations and Health Systems Resilience, Global Health Policy Center
Maclane Speer

Maclane Speer

Former Program Manager, Global Health Policy Center
Priya Chainani

Priya Chainani

Program Coordinator and Research Assistant, Global Health Policy Center
Caitlin Noe

Caitlin Noe

Program Coordinator, Global Health Policy Center

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The CommonHealth

Dr. Stephanie Psaki, former Assistant to the President and White House Global Health Security Coordinator: “We are wandering in the desert.”

Dr. Stephanie Psaki—a newly minted CSIS Senior Adviser—shares the story of her personal evolution as a scholar, senior political appointee at the HHS Office of Global Affairs, White House National Security Council, and faculty at Brown University School of Public Health.

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison and Stephanie Psaki — April 24, 2025

The CommonHealth
The CommonHealth

Maj. Gen. Paul Friedrichs (ret.): “I cannot recall anything similar to this.”

In this conversation, Major General Paul Friedrichs (ret.), the inaugural director of the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy, reviews the multiple changes in health security now unfolding in the first 100 days of the second Trump term.

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison and Paul Friedrichs — April 17, 2025

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The CommonHealth

Tom Bollyky, CFR: China will not fill the gap “as the dominant actor in global health security exits the stage.”

Tom Bollyky, CFR, walks us through his recent incisive work on two fronts. First, will China supplant US leadership in global health in the wake of the U.S. retreat? Listen to learn why the answer is a definitive "No!" and the dangers that foretells. Second, what might the U.S. exit mean for Latin America?

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — April 3, 2025

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A Quarter-Century of Disease Prevention Efforts at Risk

Not only does cutting support for national and global immunization programs threaten the U.S. measles elimination certification, it also limits economic growth, undermines the viability of U.S. trading partners, and imperils the health of children around the world.

Commentary by Katherine E. Bliss — April 2, 2025

Bird Flu Spillover Increases the Risk of Dangerous Human Variants

Bird flu now infects over 40 different mammalian species increasing opportunities for the virus to mutate and become more transmissible or lethal in humans. As the virus becomes endemic in wild animal populations,a broader, long-term, multidimensional approach is required.

Analysis by Michaela Simoneau, Sophia Hirshfield, and Maclane Speer — March 25, 2025