(2) 🤝 All of this will be in partnership with our friends and colleagues at the Africa CDC, @cepi.net, @ibbis-bio.bsky.social, the BWC ISU, Biosecurity Game Changers past and future and others!
I am thrilled and grateful to @carnegie.org for this phenomenal opportunity to support rising African biosecurity leaders in making lasting change! ⚡ Watch this space for updates on this initiative and for calls to apply for courses and fellowships ⚡🧵
I am thankful for so many teams, friends, students, and colleagues that I have worked with, who co-lead these accomplishments and provide hope every day for a better tomorrow.
It’s an honor and a privilege to be included in the 2025 #FuturePerfect25 list, which celebrates the fight for a healthier, fairer future. I’m humbled to be part of this ambitious project from @vox.com and in the company of so many changemakers I revere.
(7) Thank you to the dozens of experts who informed the work, particularly the working group leads Elizabeth Radin; Shanelle Hall; Raffaele Cordiner; Liza Munira and secretariat Melissa Laitner, Emily Shambaugh, Carolyn Shore, Sabrina Chwalek, Yuliya Velhan, Gabby Chalker. Onward to execution!
(6) HLIP Co-Chairs are @jarottingen.bsky.social, Jean Kaseya, Jane Halton, Benedict Oramah; with panelists @noiweala.bsky.social @rglenner.bsky.social @christopherelias.bsky.social @drsethberkley.bsky.social David Miliband Kiran Mazumdar-Shah Keizo Takemi; Amanda Glassman Patricia Reilly Liza Munira
(5) What’s next? For this month’s @pandemiccenter.bsky.socialPandemics and Society webinar, please join the HLIP virtual public launch on November 21 from 11:00 AM-12:30 PM EST, hosted by NAM to spur swift action.
(4) What can you do? Please read the recs and commentary in Lancet bit.ly/4pqW8Yb. And please join in working to execute the recommended five urgent and detailed actions in advance of the 2026 UN High Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response.
(3) In light of these urgent risks, the HLIP, informed by health and financing experts from around the world, rolled up its sleeves to focus on the operational needs that can save lives and attain a more speedy and equitable response to the next biological threat.
(2) With development assistance falling and political will waning, biological risks are on the rise. The pandemic of tomorrow is not a theoretical risk – it can happen at any time, yet countries are still grossly under-invested in pandemic preparedness and response.
Today, the High Level Independent Panel (HLIP) is releasing a new, bold & practical roadmap for pandemic security. I am honored to serve as Special Advisor to the panel. Read the recommendations here bit.ly/pandemicfina... and here bit.ly/4pqW8Yb ⬇️🧵
Wondering whose White House job it is to protect Americans from bio threats - and why that matters? As of this week, it is *nobody's* full-time job. Here is what that means for all of us. Thanks to Jon Finer & @spsaki.bsky.social who lay it out with me here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
We also discuss @cepi.net's model new biosecurity program, how CEPI benefits businesses, and how it aims to deliver on equitable access to vaccines everywhere, on time, during health emergencies. Tune in!
In this episode @drrhatchett.bsky.social dives into why @cepi.net is critical to national security and how to chart a path forward to deliver on the 100 Days Mission in the midst of major changes to the global health landscape.
Listen for this week's episode of A Common Health, from @csis.org, in which I had the great pleasure to host the inimitable @drrhatchett.bsky.social, CEO of @cepi.net. As always, Richard delivers not only wisdom, but also desperately needed optimism. www.csis.org/podcasts/com...
Thrilled to author with @bhadeliamd.bsky.social, @craigspencer.bsky.social as we try to make sense of the landscape and chart a safer, more secure future, including for all Americans, from bio threats. Our conclusion? Ensuring U.S. pandemic security requires strategic global engagement, not retreat.
Thanks to @cepi.net and @nti.org for modeling the world we want to live in. @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social @wilmotjames.bsky.social
Thanks to authors Kirsten Angeles, Shrestha Rath, Jose Garza-Martinez, Jon Arizti Sanz, Yorgo El Moubayed, MSC biosecurity emerging leaders & the @pandemiccenter.bsky.social Biosecurity Game Changers.
Opportunity for readers: Consider visiting mscbiosecuritydeclaration.org to support the MSC Biosecurity Emerging Leaders Declaration.
Cautionary note from the authors: A world that is truly prepared for bio threats can only emerge if current leaders -- including at the local level and among international organizations -- are serious about providing next gen leaders with the opportunity to inform and influence decision-makers now.
I am proud to be associated with the next gen leaders who penned this article -- they give me confidence that we *will* be able to get prepared for the next pandemic.
It's a pleasure to lift this thoughtful piece about the critical role of rising leaders in decisions about the future of global health and biosecurity.
👇 I'm delighted to share this new op-ed in @thebulletin.org from rising leaders in biosecurity and #BiosecurityGameChangers. thebulletin.org/2025/05/youn... 🧵
This administration is trying to abolish one leg of the stool (USAID), has signaled deep cuts at DoD, and has thrown HHS into chaos. This is not a recipe for health, it's a recipe for disaster.
Before Jan 2025, our biodefense system was created over two decades of carefully crafted programs at HHS, DoD, and USAID. These three legs in the stool ensure we can prevent, detect, and respond to any bio threat.
Taking a sledgehammer to HHS is dangerous. In @justsecurity.org me & @spsaki.bsky.social write about why cutting, changing, and chaotically destabilizing a critical part of our nation’s biodefense isn’t smart for national security, and it weakens our biological deterrence. 🧵
I got permission to post this photo from American heroes -- who we were lucky to have protecting us.
I will end the week by repeating a mantra from one of the best people I know:
Soft Power Saves Lives
Soft Power Prevents War
Soft Power Drives Economies
Soft Power Made America Great
Today, I found hope in hundreds who came out to celebrate the heroes who protect Americans from disease threats and fragility. After being locked out of their offices for weeks, they were finally allowed back in scheduled increments to box up personal items, family photos, and spare clothing. 🧵
I expected to find a somber mood. Instead, as I should have expected from people who exemplify the American and human spirit, I witnessed their RESILIENCE, STRENGTH, RELENTLESSNESS, and EMPATHY. At this fork in the road, they are on the right side of history.
