Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

Our Director participated in the Republic of Korea–UN Office of Disarmament Affairs Joint Conference in Seoul, with global experts exploring assurance, technology’s dual role, international cooperation, and capacity-building for future leaders.

CORI’s Director, Dr. Caitlin Rivers, joined Dan Diamond, health reporter for The Washington Post, at Politics & Prose to discuss her book, Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks. To read more: https://lnkd.in/g6jiidvG To read more about Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks click the link below:  https://lnkd.in/ggNNVwBY                                                                                                                #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #CrisisAverted #CommunityHealth

📢 Our journal, Health Security, invites submissions for a special feature on "The BWC at 50: Envisioning the Next 50 Years of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention." Submit your paper by January 15, 2025. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/e6rDYYu2

🎓Only 1 month left to submit your application for our #HealthSecurity #PhD and #DrPH tracks. Deadline: December 1 https://lnkd.in/ekRQCkyE

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In last week’s Health Security Decoded, we covered the rising number of human bird flu cases and expert calls for enhanced surveillance and response efforts. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eVey8-dq

📢 New in The Lancet: Senior Scholar Dr. Alexandra Phelan and colleagues discuss the collective responsibility of governments in facilitating equitable access to essential health products. They explore how a strengthened role for the WHO could support coordination between states and non-state actors. 🔗Read the full commentary: https://lnkd.in/eFb-7ZMF

Join me this Friday, November 1, at 7 p.m. at Politics and Prose (Wharf location!) for a discussion of my new book, Crisis Averted. I’ll be in conversation with Washington Post journalist Dan Diamond.

📰 New in our journal, #HealthSecurity: (Vol. 22, Issue 5) is online! 🔗 Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gphwgrGM

Many important US government biosecurity and biosafety related actions and responsibilities set out in the new White House “Memorandum on Advancing the United States’ Leadership in Artificial Intelligence" just released, including that: The US AISI will issue guidance for AI developers on how to “test, evaluate, and manage risks to safety, security, and trustworthiness arising from dual-use foundation models.” US government agencies will work to increase biosecurity by developing AI systems that create: in silico screening tools for biological research and technology; nucleic acid synthesis screening algorithms; high-assurance software foundations for novel biotechnologies; screening of complete orders or data streams from cloud labs and biofoundries; and, risk mitigation strategies such as medical countermeasures. US government agencies will work to “convene academic research institutions and scientific publishers to develop voluntary best practices and standards” for publishing computational biological models, data sets, and approaches, including those that use AI and could “contribute to the production of knowledge, information, technologies, and products” that could be used to cause harm. And NSC, OSTP and OPPR will develop guidance promoting the benefits and mitigating the risks associated with in silico biological research. Good to see continued forward progress by the US government in assigning or confirming a range of US gov agency responsibilities and timelines for increasing biosecurity and biosafety