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People wearing masks walk past an American flag painted on a building during the outbreak of COVID-19.

National Security Debate on Global Health Enters a New Phase

by David P. Fidler

Controversies about national security and global health are changing in a post-pandemic, geopolitical, and warming world

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Rhiannon Evans, head of Enzyme Production and Molecular Biology at biotechnology research company HydRegen, works in their laboratory facility.

New Biotech Platforms Offer Better Paths to Biosecurity

by Ryan Morhard

Changes in uses of digital technology improved cybersecurity, offering a blueprint for making biotechnology more secure

A golden-white smoke wafts in the air around South Korean anti-terrorist soldiers take part in an anti-terror drill to prepare for chemical and drone attacks, at Korea International Exhibition Center, in Goyang, South Korea, on October 27, 2022.
Governance

A Plan B to Strengthen Biosafety and Biosecurity

by Gregory D. Koblentz, Filippa Lentzos

A "minilateral" approach is needed to strengthen global biorisk management

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during an address where he says that Russian forces could use chemical weapons in Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 11, 2022 i
Governance

The World is Unprepared for the Unthinkable

by Brian McCloskey, Jennifer B. Nuzzo, David Heymann

A biological attack anywhere would have profound and far-reaching political, military, and health consequences

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