Health Security

The CSIS Global Health Policy Center’s work on health and security provides an in-depth analysis of this emerging complex interface between proliferating security threats and extensive global health demands

Health security encompasses many threats to U.S. national interests and the American people, from global outbreak and pandemic surveillance and response, to growing drug resistance, managing technological advances in gene editing, strengthening vaccine confidence, and assessing the impacts of conflict, natural disasters, and other humanitarian emergencies on health systems. The United States has articulated approaches through the Global Health Security Agenda, launched in 2015 with other nations, and the National Biodefense Strategy, released in 2018.  However, there remains a need for a stronger, more coherent, better integrated, and more reliably financed U.S. approach to health security.
 
The CSIS Global Health Policy Center analyzes how U.S. policies and programs must be adapted and capacities strengthened, in both global health and international security, to advance U.S. national interests in the coming years. Topics explored include: contributions of the U.S. DOD to combat infectious disease; cultivating health security partnerships with governments in geopolitically significant regions; assessing the successes and sustainability of the Global Health Security Agenda; and tracking the epidemiological spread and policy response of the U.S. and key governments to the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic.

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The CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security is our signature effort to bridge political divides and build a U.S. doctrine of continuous prevention, protection, and resilience. We lead a distinguished and diverse group of high-level opinion leaders from both the health and national security worlds, including members of Congress, officials from previous administrations, and leaders from industry, foundations, universities, and non-governmental organizations. The Commission charts a bold vision for the future of U.S. leadership in global health security – at home and abroad, a goal more necessary now than ever.
 
The Commission has convened experts privately and publicly to discuss these pressing challenges and has produced briefs and reports outlining policies to best address them. In its final report, Ending the Cycle of Crisis and Complacency in U.S. Global Health Security (November 2019), the Commission articulated a robust, long-term approach to ensure continuous protection and resilience against health security threats. To learn more, visit the Commission’s website: https://healthsecurity.csis.org/.

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Pandemic Therapies

The last two and a half years of the global Covid-19 pandemic have witnessed unprecedented research and development collaboration that has resulted in the availability—in record time—of new vaccines.

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Winter Outlook with Dr. Anthony Fauci

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Monday, September 19 for a fireside chat with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the President and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Event by J. Stephen Morrison and Anthony Fauci — September 19, 2022

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Reflections on the Second Global Covid-19 Summit

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America's Health Security on Wednesday, May 18, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. ET, for an important virtual event to examine the outcomes of the second Global Covid-19 Summit.

Event by J. Stephen Morrison , Julie Gerberding , Susan Brooks , Raj Panjabi , and Elizabeth Cameron — May 18, 2022

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The Department of Defense Contributions to Pandemic Response

Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, DOD capabilities have again proven to be vital national assets to be reinforced, funded, protected, and deployed, as needed, in advancing a U.S. global health security strategy.

Report by Thomas Cullison and J. Stephen Morrison — May 6, 2022

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Covid-19 Vaccine Confidence at One Year

Please join the CSIS-LSHTM High-Level Panel on Vaccine Confidence and Misinformation to reflect on what has been learned over the first year of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, and what more can be done to strengthen vaccine confidence in the United States and globally.

Event by Katherine E. Bliss , James Andrew Lewis , J. Stephen Morrison , Heidi J. Larson , and Mollyann Brodie — February 4, 2022

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Call to Action: Global Coordination to Scale Up Access to Covid-19 Therapies

The CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security has issued an urgent call to strengthen global coordination related to Covid-19 testing and therapies, including by bolstering R&D, accelerating licensing and production, and supporting equitable access.

Commentary by Katherine E. Bliss and J. Stephen Morrison — January 13, 2022

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Fireside Chat with Dr. Anthony Fauci: Is the Pandemic in Transition?

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security for a fireside chat with Dr. Anthony Fauci on what Omicron might mean in the larger picture of the pandemic and the future, at home and abroad.

Event by J. Stephen Morrison and Anthony Fauci — January 11, 2022

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2022 Is the Year of Decision

In a new white paper, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security argues that the moment has arrived to rethink U.S. approaches, at home and abroad, in both managing the ongoing pandemic and in creating better preparedness for the future.

Report by J. Stephen Morrison , Susan W. Brooks , and Julie L. Gerberding — January 10, 2022

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