All Events

The CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security officially launched on April 17, 2018. Commissioners gathered to discuss the major objectives of the Commission for its two-year life span.

On August 6, 2018, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security hosted a public event on U.S. leadership in meeting the burgeoning health needs of vulnerable populations living in the midst of conflict and disorder.

On October 2, 2018, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening Health Security held its second full Commission meeting to discuss the Commission’s ongoing work to construct and operationalize a ten-year U.S. vision for health security.

On October 25, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center hosted a conversation with Thomas J. Bollyky on his new book, Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways.

On October 29, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security hosted a screening of its new film, The Gathering Health Storm Inside North Korea, followed by a roundtable discussion with regional experts and providers of humanitarian assistance.

On November 14, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security co-hosted a panel discussion on the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo with the CSIS Africa Program.

On January 28, 2019, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security convened a high-level Clade X pandemic simulation exercise in collaboration with Commission expert advisor Tom Inglesby and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

On March 27, 2019, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security and the National Academy of Medicine co-hosted a panel discussion on the unfolding debate over human germline genome editing.

On November 20, 2019, Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, Co-Chair of the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities on “Biological Threats to U.S. National Security."

On February 15, 2020, J. Stephen Morrison moderated a public town hall at the Munich Security Conference on the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

On April 27, 2020, CSIS hosted a virtual discussion of the implications of COVID-19 in Yemen with Lise Grande, UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen.

On May 1, 2020, CSIS’s International Security Program and Global Health Policy Center spoke with Members of Congress and global health security experts about efforts to establish a bipartisan commission to examine the Covid-19 crisis.

On May 18, 2020, the CSIS Humanitarian Agenda hosted Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), for a discussion on how humanitarian organizations are adapting and responding to needs during the Covid-19 pandemic.

On May 28, 2020, J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, hosted and moderated a timely conversation with Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) about both the public health and economic dimensions to addressing the coronavirus pandemic.

COVID-19 has revealed stark deficiencies and weaknesses in pandemic preparedness and triggered a new debate over how the United States is to better organize itself against threats that have profound health and economic consequences, at home and abroad.

On June 15, Steve Morrison, senior vice president and director, Global Health Policy Center and Judd Devermont, director of the Africa Program testified before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on the topic of ‘Impact of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa.’.

On June 23, Julie L. Gerberding, Co-Chair, CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security, testified before the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on ‘Covid-19: Lessons Learned to Prepare for the Next Pandemic’.

On June 24 Julie L. Gerberding, Co-Chair, CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security, testifies before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affair on ‘The Role of the Strategic National Stockpile in Pandemic Response’.

On September 2, J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center moderated a discussion on Vladimir Putin's Sputnik V vaccine and its implications for the global scramble for a Covid-19 vaccine.

U.S. Congressman Tom Cole speaks to J. Stephen Morrison on the U.S. Congress and its response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dr. Rajiv Shah, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, speaks with J. Stephen Morrison on the Foundation's billion dollar investment into global recovery from Covid-19.

Dorothy Shea, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, speaks with J. Stephen Morrison on the humanitarian and health crisis confront Lebanon in the wake of the August 4 Beruit explosion.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is pleased to host the Washington D.C. launch of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) 2021 report.

On December 9, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America's Health security hosted a conversation with Anders Tegnell, State Epidemiologist of the Public Health Agency of Sweden.

On December 14, 2020, the CSIS Commission hosted a conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

J. Stephen Morrison and Jude Blanchette speak with Yanzhong Huang, Expert Advisor to the CSIS Health Security Commission, on his latest book, Toxic Politics: China's Environmental Health Crisis and Its Challenge to the Chinese State.

Please join the CSIS Global Health Policy Center on Friday, January 29, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST for a panel discussion on opportunities to expand the reach of routine immunization services under Covid-19.

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Monday, February 1 from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. EST for a timely exchange on the swift global emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants and their impact on both the domestic and global Covid-19 response.

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Wednesday, February 10 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. EST for a discussion featuring John-Arne Røttingen, Ambassador for Global Health with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security and the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security co-hosted a discussion with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the President and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Professor Paul Kelly, Chief Medical Officer at the Australian Government Department of Health.

On Thursday, April 29 from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. EDT, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security and CSIS Economics Program co-hosted a panel discussion on the major findings of a new Commission report: Creating Fiscal Space in the Covid-19 Era.

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Friday, May 7 from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. EDT for a timely conversation with Congresswoman Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14).

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Wednesday, May 12, from 3:00 to 3:45 p.m. EDT for a conversation with Peter J. Hotez.

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security for the first in a series of conversations about the role of strong primary health care services in supporting routine immunizations and building resilience in the face of global health threats.

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Wednesday, June 9 from 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. EDT for a conversation with Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK-04).

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Monday, June 21 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. EDT for an online event focused on lower- and lower-middle income country experiences preparing for and delivering Covid-19 vaccines.

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Wednesday, June 23 from 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. EDT for a conversation on the future of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).

On Tuesday, August 3rd from 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EDT, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security will host a fireside chat with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the President and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Moderated by J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, the discussion will examine the administration’s signature initiative, the Antiviral Program for Pandemics, which dedicates $3.2 billion to speed development of antivirals for COVID-19 and other viruses with the potential to become pandemics.

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Friday, September 24, from 9:30 am - 10:15 am EDT, for a conversation with Ambassador Román Macaya Hayes, Executive President of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund, and Katherine E. Bliss, Senior Fellow with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center. They will discuss Costa Rica’s path to prioritizing primary health care programs, the nation’s experience delivering health services at the community level during the Covid-19 pandemic, and lessons that may be relevant for other countries seeking to strengthen their health systems and at the same time improve preparedness for future outbreaks.

Please join CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Friday, September 24 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EDT for an exciting virtual event featuring Commissioner Nikolaj Gilbert, President and CEO at PATH; Commission Co-Chair Julie Gerberding, Executive Vice President and Chief Patient Officer at Merck; and Commission Expert Advisor Carolyn Reynolds, CSIS Global Health Policy Center Senior Associate and Co-Founder of the Pandemic Action Network. J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, will moderate the discussion. The experts will offer reflections on where we stand at this critical decision point in the global Covid-19 crisis: in terms of U.S. leadership and commitments, efforts to mobilize other multilateral partners, and what more needs to be done to reignite a coherent international approach.

Please join the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on Thursday, September 30 from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EDT for a discussion on the future of women and girls in Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s ascendance in Kabul.

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Thursday, October 7, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT, for an exciting virtual event featuring Lawrence O. Gostin, University Professor and Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law, and author of the newly released Global Health Security: A Blueprint for the Future.

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Tuesday, October 12, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. EDT, for an important virtual event to discuss how to advance the global Covid-19 response in the wake of President Biden’s September 22 Summit and leading up to the G20.

Please join the CSIS Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics and CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security for a discussion on the key takeaways of the new CSIS Commission report: “Advancing U.S.-China Health Security Cooperation in an Era of Strategic Competition.”

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Monday, December 20, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET, for an important virtual event featuring Paul Spiegel, Professor and Director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Leonard Rubenstein, Professor and Director of the Program on Human Rights and Health in Conflict at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, joins Dr. Fauci in a conversation centered on the question: what might Omicron mean in the larger picture of the pandemic and the future, at home and abroad?

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Wednesday, March 2, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET, for a fireside chat with Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines. J. Stephen Morrison, CSIS Senior Vice President and Global Health Policy Center Director, will host and moderate a discussion on how U.S. corporate leadership can contribute to health security.

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

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Monday, June 28th, from 2:00p.m. – 2:45p.m. EDT for the second in a series of conversations examining how strong, community-based primary health care services can support vaccine distribution and how, at the same time, immunization programs can help promote access to primary health care services.

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Tuesday, August 30, from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET, for a fireside chat with Rochelle Walensky, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Monday, September 19, from 1:00 pm to 1:20 pm ET, 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.

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Tuesday, September 27, from 4:00 pm to 4:20 pm ET, for a fireside chat with Dr. Ashish Jha, White House Covid-19 Response Coordinator.

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security on Wednesday, October 19, from 10:00 am to 11:00 am ET, for a fireside chat with Dr. Raj Panjabi, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense at the White House National Security Council.

A new report by Katherine E. Bliss, Senior Fellow and Director of Immunizations and Health Systems Resilience at the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, and J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and Director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, discusses key challenges and recommendations aimed at strengthening U.S. leadership and global action to ensure development of, access to, and uptake of Covid-19 therapies worldwide.

Please join the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America's Health Security for a lively roundtable discussion on a new CSIS report, "Building the CDC the Country Needs."