Please join us ⬇️ I am delighted to be a part of this amazing group: 🎤 Zibusiso Masuku, Sandra Matinyi, Thokozani Nyasulu Liwewe, and @wilmotjames.bsky.social -- speaking about a deep passion of ours @pandemiccenter.bsky.social: Building the next generation of biosecurity leadership ⚡

Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health@pandemiccenter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Next-gen leadership is the future of biosecurity. Join us April 10 for a talk on global threat reduction & lessons from the Biosecurity Game Changers. 🗣️: Thokozani Liwewe, Zibusiso Masuku, Sandra Matinyi, @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social, @wilmotjames.bsky.social brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

👏 Please share widely: Calling for applications in Africa for our new bio threat reduction course and fellowship!

Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health@pandemiccenter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Calling for applicants in Africa who want to make an impact on the future of biosecurity! The @pandemiccenter.bsky.social, supported by the @carnegie.org, is launching a Biological Threat Reduction Training Policy Program and a 12-month Fellowship for rising African biosecurity leaders.

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 ⚡🧵

Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health@pandemiccenter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We’re excited to share @carnegie.org awarded the Pandemic Center a $900K grant for #biosecurity! This will support an initiative that will produce a biological threat reduction policy program for rising African decision-makers & develop a pipeline of experts in Africa to lead & implement it. More ⤵

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.

Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health@pandemiccenter.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Meet @vox.com’s 2025 #FuturePerfect25. These changemakers, including our Senior Adviser @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social are advancing global health and development at a time of unprecedented challenges, proving that meaningful progress is still possible. See the full list on Vox ⤵️

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 ⬇️🧵

Pandemic Financing

The G20 High Level Independent Panel sets minimum annual benchmarks for pandemic financing and urges governments to take action by or before the September

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Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health@pandemiccenter.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Global health financing is shrinking as pandemic risks are rising. The G20 High Level Independent Panel (HLIP) is calling for urgent action from governments around the globe for domestic and global financing to protect against catastrophic losses. Read their report here ⤵️

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...

No One in the White House Knows How to Stop Ebola

We had a playbook for handling biothreats. Then Trump pushed out the people who knew how to use it.

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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...

Richard Hatchett, CEPI: “Access does not just happen.” | The CommonHealth | CSIS Podcasts

Beth Cameron, Senior Advisor and Professor of the Practice at the Brown University Pandemic Center and a Senior Adviser and non-resident fellow at CSIS, hosts this inspiring conversation with Richard ...

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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.

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia@bhadeliamd.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: Beth Cameron, @craigspencer.bsky.social and I share the impact of US funding cuts and policy changes to global health security now and in the future in Vaccine journal. "A tale of two U.S. Global health security futures—withdraw or evolve?" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

👇 I'm delighted to share this new op-ed in @thebulletin.org from rising leaders in biosecurity and #BiosecurityGameChangers. thebulletin.org/2025/05/youn... 🧵

Young people will be key to preventing the next pandemic

Global health forums like the World Health Assembly, where the pandemic agreement was recently approved, need to fully incorporate the voices and expertise of young people in the Global South, where 9...

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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. 🧵

Just Security@justsecurity.org · last yr.

What Just Happened: Top experts write on exactly why the Trump administration's sweeping changes to HHS will make the United States highly insecure, not healthy. Plus what indicators to keep an eye on in coming weeks and months. By @spsaki.bsky.social and @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social

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. 🧵

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I’m not a bureaucrat. I’m a Boise native who worked hard to stop deaths from malaria | Opinion

The language that has been used to vilify myself and my colleagues around the world is cruel and simply false. | Opinion

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bit.ly/4hcIu6c I sat down with Steve Morrison @csis.org to talk about the decimation of U.S. protection against biological threats, the incredible people who make up the US health security fighting force & why these efforts are imperative for all Americans and our national security.

Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Cameron: “It has been a blizzard... It’s a staggering reality” | The CommonHealth | CSIS Podcasts

Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Cameron, Professor, Brown University, and former senior official in global health security and biodefense at the White House and USAID, kindly shares her thoughts on the radical c...

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Our protective shield against deadly diseases is falling apart. We haven't had Ebola in America in a decade. That's because Congress supported USAID and CDC to: (1) protect our homeland from deadly disease (2) stop outbreaks at the source (3) make sure our military doesn't have to go into hot zones.

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · last yr.

Uganda's Ebola outbreak has worsened — but the country’s ability to fight it has been severely weakened by the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign assistance, per recording of US officials obtained by @lattif.bsky.social @stephanienolen.bsky.social. Eye-catching + worrying scoop.

USAID global health security people & programs = America’s fighting force against Ebola. That force is being terminated. The # of Ebola cases in America since a bipartisan Congress souped up the effort in 2015? Zero. Do most Americans want to keep it that way? Yes. Let’s get them back to work.

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · last yr.

Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.” That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social. “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.

I am incredibly proud of this #biosecurity team of rising leaders and experts. They are charting a path to a new way of thinking where biosecurity and biosafety are integrated fully into global health and #100DaysMission! Please join us in endorsing the effort. Check it out ⬇️

Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health@pandemiccenter.bsky.social · last yr.

At the @munsecconf.bsky.social, we w/ @cepivaccines.bsky.social, @nti.org, & @foreignpolicy.com, met with rising biosecurity leaders from the Global South & top decision-makers to identify actions to improve biosecurity & the #100DaysMission. Together they’ve crafted an exciting declaration. More ⤵️

At the @munsecconf.bsky.social, we w/ @cepivaccines.bsky.social, @nti.org, & @foreignpolicy.com, met with rising biosecurity leaders from the Global South & top decision-makers to identify actions to improve biosecurity & the #100DaysMission. Together they’ve crafted an exciting declaration. More ⤵️

CEPI, Brown, NTI Partner with Rising Leaders to Take Biological Threats off the Table

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Amid sobering discussions @munsecconf.bsky.social our Biosecurity Game Changers are a breath of fresh air, focused on forward action to take pandemics off the table through support for #100DaysMission and built-in #biosecurity.

Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health@pandemiccenter.bsky.social · last yr.

This weekend we are co-hosting a side event at #MSC for next gen global south biosecurity talent! The Pandemic Center's @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social, with partners from @cepivaccines.bsky.social & @nti.org, with a focus on biosecurity, and the #100DaysMission. Read more here:

Elon Musk has purchased $40M on a series of Superbowl ads attacking USAID as "wasteful spending." Colleagues have created this video and are asking that it be posted across social media at exactly 5:30 pm EST today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

Musk is rumored to spend $40M on Super Bowl ads with his wildly distorted claims attacking USAID. Don’t believe them. The last round are debunked below. wapo.st/3ErHBZM And I'll unpack the reality in this 🧵, too. 1/13

Analysis | The White House’s wildly inaccurate claims about USAID spending

Eleven out of 12 claims about the agency’s work are misleading, wrong or lack context.

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Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

The United States is less secure without its deployed USAID Force. Tonight I am left speechless by this action and its reverberating impact for us all. USAID is an indispensable part of our national security and the face of America in the world. Please honor our USAID Force tonight. 🧵

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PEPFAR Impact Tracker

Track the impact of PEPFAR funding halt

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There have been 12 outbreaks of Ebola or Marburg (a close cousin) in the past 4 years Zero have landed in the US Why? Because of people like Stephanie Psaki and a US deeply engaged in the world So Stephanie asks Who is protecting Americans from Marburg now? www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/m...

Who is protecting Americans from Marburg right now?

The WHO and the CDC coordinated well when faced with viral outbreaks. This is no time to demolish a well-oiled machine.

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👇READ THIS👇 A vital new article about the dangers of mirror life, authored by a diverse, credible, and international group of scientists around the world who are dedicated to the peaceful benefits of biology. THREAD. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Confronting risks of mirror life

Broad discussion is needed to chart a path forward.

science.org