The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHCHS) is an American non-profit organization based in Baltimore, Maryland. It operates under the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
History
The JHCHS co-hosted a pandemic preparedness exercise called Event 201 in New York City on October 18, 2019, in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Economic Forum.[1]
COVID-19
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Rockefeller Foundation provided funding to the JHCHS to host CommuniVax, a research project working to increase uptake of COVID-19 vaccines among Black and Hispanic/Latino Americans.[2] CommuniVax was run in partnership with the Texas State University Department of Anthropology.[3]
On May 25, 2021, the Rockefeller Foundation announced a $400,000 grant for the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security to “identify and showcase successful country responses to COVID-19,” as part of the Exemplars in Global Health program. Examplars in Global Health is “a partnership incubated in Gates Ventures, the private office of Bill Gates, in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.”[4]
Organization
The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security is part of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Personnel
| Name | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Jonas Sandbrink | Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Fellow[5] | Future of Humanity Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) |
Funding
The center has received funding from:[2:1][6]
- Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)
- CRDF Global
- Cyber Academic Group
- de Beaumont Foundation
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)
- Johns Hopkins University
- National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)
- National Association of Chain Drug Stores
- National Science Foundation[7]
- Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
- Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)
- Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction
- Open Philanthropy[8]
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Rockefeller Foundation[4:1][9]
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
- Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
- United States Department of Defense
- United States Department of State
- World Health Organization (WHO)
Funding of the center was encouraged by Founders Pledge, which cites their Clade X bioterrorism exercise.[10]
Publications
- April 2019: Vaccine Platforms: State of the Field and Looming Challenges
- February 2024: Practical playbook for addressing health misinformation
External links
Event 201, a pandemic exercise to illustrate preparedness efforts. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved January 3, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.01.03-222033/https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/ ↩︎
Research Projects. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved July 11, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.07.11-201712/https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/center-research-projects ↩︎ ↩︎
Home. CommuniVax. Retrieved July 15, 2021, from http://archive.today/2021.07.15-232217/https://www.communivax.org ↩︎
Chang, A., & Miller, M. (2021, May 25). Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security receives a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to deliver Covid-19 Response Research as part of the Exemplars in Global Health program. The Rockefeller Foundation. https://web.archive.org/web/20230605065933/https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/news/johns-hopkins-center-for-health-security-receives-a-grant-from-the-rockefeller-foundation-to-deliver-covid-19-response-research-as-part-of-the-exemplars-in-global-health-program/ ↩︎ ↩︎
Jonas Sandbrink. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved June 10, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230610143509/https://thebulletin.org/biography/jonas-sandbrink/ ↩︎
Completed Projects. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved July 11, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20230711201855/https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/research-projects/completed-projects ↩︎
Working Group on Readying Populations for COVID-19 Vaccine. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved October 5, 2022, from http://archive.today/2021.04.04-023329/https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/Center-projects/CONVERGE.html ↩︎
Grants. Open Philanthropy. Retrieved July 11, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.07.11-200329/https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/?q=&organization-name=johns-hopkins-center-for-health-security ↩︎
Alexopulos, N. (2018, January 22). Center for Health Security receives $399K grant from Rockefeller Foundation to create scalable checklist for nations to assess health system resilience and a guide to making improvements. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. https://web.archive.org/web/20230711213712/https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/2018/center-for-health-security-receives-399k-grant-from-rockefeller-foundation-0 ↩︎
Halstead, J. (2020). Safeguarding the Future: Cause Area Report (p. 45). Founders Pledge. https://web.archive.org/web/20230711200533/https://assets.ctfassets.net/x5sq5djrgbwu/5C1hNPO8RK2E3RzH9dj88M/1fd2c52ab1e534af95c25c5ebea92b49/Cause_Report_-_Safeguarding_the_Future.pdf ↩︎
