Kenneth Bernard

Kenneth Bernard, M.D., is a retired U.S. Public Health Service Rear Admiral and former Assistant Surgeon General who worked at the White House on biosecurity in the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations.

White flags placed across 20 acres of the National Mall represent Americans who have died of COVID-19. The Washington Monument stands in the distance, in Washington, D.C., September 2021.
Governance

Biodefense Leadership and National Security: Lessons from the Goldwater-Nichols Reforms

by Kenneth Bernard

The U.S. government needs transformational reform to combat threats to health security