Global Health Security Seminar Series

The Global Health Security Seminar Series began in September 2017 in efforts to promote greater dialogue regarding health security across Georgetown University and the wider Washington D.C. community. The events are co-sponsored by Georgetown’s Center for Global Health Science & Security and the Global Health Initiative and occur monthly from 8:00 – 9:00 AM.

Upcoming Seminars

Check back soon for details about our next seminar!

Past Seminars

Watch the event recording here!

Watch the event recording here!

Watch the event recording here!

Watch the event recording here, with English and Spanish subtitles.

Read the paper series here.

Watch the event recording here!

Watch the event recording here!

October 2020

Ed You on “Safeguarding the Bioeconomy”

September 2020

Clare Wenham on “where are the women” during COVID-19

February 2020

Mark Eccleston-Turner on influenza vaccine security and supply during a pandemic: compulsory requisition and the PIP Framework

October 2019

Caryl Griffin on global and local biosafety/biosecurity missions in light of cura personalis

September 2019

Ron Klain on Ebola in 2019: What Has Changed Since 2014

April 2019

Kumanan Wilson and Lindsay Wilson on Governance challenges to implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005)

April 2019

Bruce Gellin on the Role of Vaccines in Global Health Security

March 2020

Ellie Graeden on Informing Influenza Response: Data Visualization and Decision Support for CDC

February 2019

Shelly Bratton and Jim Banaski on Intersections between the Global Health Security Agenda and National Public Health Institutes

November 2018

Matthew Hepburn on Technologies for Pandemic Preparedness 

October 2018

Billy Karesh on One Health in the 21^st Century 

September 2018

Alpha Barry, Erin Sorrell, Claire Standley, and Aurelia Attal-Juncqua on Capacity Building Experiences in Guinea Following the 2014 Ebola Outbreak 

March 2018

Nancy Knight on the CDC and Global Health Protection in an Interconnected World

March 2018

Jeff Freeman on Technology for Real-Time Response

January 2018

Jim Welch on Biosafety Applications for Global Health Security

November 2017

Mukesh Chawla on the Role of the World Bank in Advancing Global Health Security

October 2017

Jimmy Kolker on Global Health Diplomacy & Security: Lessons Learned from the Ebola and Zika Outbreaks

September 2017

Beth Cameron on Advancing Global Health Security and Reducing Future Biological Risk