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Public Health Threats and Pandemics

Why This Mpox Is Different

with Thomas J. Bollyky via Council on Foreign Relations August 15, 2024

Global Health Program

President Biden's Foreign Policy Legacy on Global Health

with David P. Fidler via Think Global Health August 19, 2024

Global Health Program

H5N1 Bird Flu in U.S. cattle: A Wake-Up Call to Action

with Luciana L. Borio via STAT April 12, 2024

Yanzhong Huang

China Strategy Initiative

Washington and Beijing Don’t Understand Each Other’s Fentanyl Positions

Featuring Yanzhong Huang and Marcel Arsenault via Foreign Policy August 27, 2024

Health

Global Health Security and Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century

The Global Health Security and Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century symposium is cohosted by the Council on Foreign Relations and the recently launched Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State. This event convenes a globally representative set of influential policymakers, practitioners, and thought leaders to discuss the global need for better cooperation, coordination, and communication in tackling health security threats, which also threaten national security. Speakers include U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Senior Bureau Official for Global Health Security and Diplomacy John Nkengasong, former Chief Medical Advisor to the President Anthony Fauci, Director of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Mandy K. Cohen, and UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima. Speakers making welcoming remarks include U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (pre-recorded video message to participants), U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, and Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. This event is part of Thomas J. Bollyky's Global Health, Economics, and Development Roundtable Series. Please click here to view the full symposium agenda.

Virtual Event with Ayoade Alakija, Anne-Claire Amprou, Jarbas Barbosa, Priya Basu, Jainey K. Bavishi, Nidhi Bouri, Winnie Byanyima, Emi Chutaro, Guéladio Cissé, Mandy K. Cohen, Victor J. Dzau, Anthony S. Fauci, Senait Fisseha, Tom Frieden, Paul Friedrichs, Peter Hotez, Yanzhong Huang, Chikwe Ihekweazu, Jean Kaseya, Oanh Khuat, Rachel King, Jimmy Kolker, Lester Martinez-Lopez, John Nkengasong, Benedict Okey Oramah, Loyce Pace, Peter Piot, John-Arne Røttingen, Reeta Roy, Amadou Sall, Peter Sands, Olive Shisana, Joy St. John, Marisol Touraine, David Walton, David Whineray, Stephanie Williams, Edem Adzogenu, Thomas J. Bollyky, Hillary H. Carter, Susan Dentzer, John Monahan and Leana S. Wen November 13, 2023

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised that his administration would make a “historic effort” to reduce long-running racial inequities in health. Tobacco use—the leading cause of p…

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

China

China’s Battle Against Air Pollution: An Update

Although China seems to have continued improving air quality during the Covid era, it is premature to celebrate the end of its war against pollution.

Post by Yanzhong Huang April 24, 2024 Asia Unbound

United States

Virtual Roundtable: The Pandemic Agreement and IHR Amendments After the World Health Assembly

In response to COVID-19, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) have been negotiating to create a pandemic agreement and to amend the existing International Health Regulations (IHR). The negotiations have been closely watched as indicators of global health diplomacy's future in an increasingly divided world. On June 1, the WHO's World Health Assembly approved amendments to the IHR and extended negotiations on a pandemic agreement. Dr. Suerie Moon, codirector of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva; David Fidler, senior fellow for global health and cybersecurity at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); and presider Thomas J. Bollyky, Bloomberg Chair in Global Health at CFR discuss what the World Health Assembly's decisions on the IHR amendments and the pandemic agreement negotiations mean for global health security, equity, and governance.

Virtual Event with David P. Fidler, Suerie Moon and Thomas J. Bollyky June 18, 2024 Global Health Program

Health

Think Global Health

with Thomas J. Bollyky via Think Global Health February 27, 2023

Global Health Program

In-Person DC Roundtable: Falling Global Fertility and Its Implications for Climate Change, Political Stability, and Economies

New fertility forecasts from the Global Burden of Disease Study stress our world's trajectory towards a low-fertility future. By 2050, fertility rates in three-quarters of countries will not sustain their populations, increasing to ninety-seven percent of countries by 2100. At the same time, relatively high fertility rates in low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa will continue to drive population growth, leading to a ‘demographically divided world.’ Please join our speakers, Ann Norris, senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and Christopher J. Murray, director of the institute that oversees the Global Burden of Disease Study, for a discussion about the latest regional fertility data and how national governments can prepare for projected threats to health, economies, food security, the environment, and geopolitical stability brought on by these demographic changes.

Event with Christopher J. Murray, Ann Norris and Thomas J. Bollyky May 13, 2024 Global Health Program

Global Health Program

A Practical Agenda for Incorporating Trust into Pandemic Preparedness and Response

with Thomas J. Bollyky and Michael Bang Peterson via Bulletin of the World Health Organization June 1, 2024

United States

In-Person DC Roundtable: National Security and the U.S. Pharma and Biotech Industries

The COVID-19 pandemic and chronic U.S. drug shortages highlight the health security and strategic importance of U.S. pharmaceutical and biotechnology capabilities during and between pathogenic crises. Geopolitical competition and interest in industrial policy for biotechnology further underscore the national security role of domestic biopharmaceutical infrastructure. Policymakers confront competing health, economic, and strategic priorities in maximizing innovation in technology, business models, and health-care systems in facilitating safe, accessible, secure, and sustainable products, services, and supply chains. Please join our speakers, Monique K. Mansoura, executive director for global health security and biotechnology at The MITRE Corporation, and Victor Suarez, Colonel (ret.), U.S. Army, senior fellow (visiting) at The Council on Strategic Risks and founder of BluZoneBio, to explore challenges facing the U.S. pharma and biotech industries and approaches to strengthening the national security resilience of those industries in a world marked by health and geopolitical threats.

Event with Monique K. Mansoura, Victor Suarez and David P. Fidler June 25, 2024

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Program Director

Thomas J. Bollyky

Bloomberg Chair in Global Health; Senior Fellow for International Economics, Law, and Development; and Director of the Global Health Program

Luciana L. Borio

Senior Fellow for Global Health

David P. Fidler

Senior Fellow for Global Health and Cybersecurity

Yanzhong Huang

Senior Fellow for Global Health

Prashant Yadav

Senior Fellow for Global Health

Drug Policy

America’s Fentanyl Epidemic: The China Connection

Over the past few years, a new threat has emerged as a leading cause of death in the United States: fentanyl. Yet even as the drug wreaks havoc on Americans lives, preventing its flow into the United States is complicated, partially because of the supply’s overseas origins, which is often China. What is China’s role in the U.S. fentanyl crisis?

Podcast with Gabrielle Sierra, Thomas J. Bollyky, Zongyuan Zoe Liu and Shannon K. O'Neil October 25, 2023 Why It Matters
U.S. Foreign Policy

Biden Visits Japan and South Korea, Annual World Health Assembly, and More

U.S. President Joe Biden visits Japan and South Korea, the seventy-fifth World Health Assembly takes place in Geneva, and Australians vote in a general election.

Podcast with James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon May 19, 2022 The World Next Week
Russia

Global Pressure Against Russia Grows, Two Years of COVID-19, and More

The destruction of Ukraine continues as countries ramp up pressure on Russia, the world marks two years since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO), and Colombians vote in parliamentary elections.

Podcast with James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon March 10, 2022 The World Next Week
Europe

European Parliament’s Presidential Election, COVID-19 Case Rates Surge, and More

The European Parliament elects a new president, COVID-19 case rates surge across the globe, and diplomacy continues over Russian security demands in Europe.

Podcast with Robert McMahon and Matthias Matthijs January 13, 2022 The World Next Week
Transition 2021

Transition 2021: How Will Biden Manage COVID-19?

Thomas J. Bollyky, director of the global health program and senior fellow for global health, economics, and development at CFR, and Jennifer Nuzzo, CFR senior fellow for global health, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the incoming Biden administration’s likely approach to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Podcast with James M. Lindsay, Thomas J. Bollyky and Jennifer Nuzzo January 12, 2021 The President’s Inbox

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