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"What Is Health Security?": Perspectives From The 2016 Futures Fellows
Prior to the Futures Fellowship Training Institute (FFTI) in Amsterdam this week, the Fellows were posed the question, "What is health security?" The image above captures our Fellows' main thoughts, but here are also some highlights from the riveting responses we received: "Health security involves policies, strategies, agendas, and activities which minimize the susceptibility of public health threats such as pandemics, emerging infectious diseases, bioterrorism, disease outbreaks, … Continue Reading
April 04, 2016
Meet The 2016 Futures Fellows
As the 2016 Futures Fellowship Training Institute nears, HSP would like to formally introduce this year's Fellows. Coming from both the U.S. and Pakistan, the Futures Fellows will gather next week in Amsterdam to learn from experts in the field and collaborate on innovative ways to address health security challenges. From their varying backgrounds to diverse research interests, this year's Fellows have the potential to make substantial impacts on the future of health security worldwide. Stay … Continue Reading
March 30, 2016
“Fellow Spotlight” On A Rising Star In Health Security: Raheel Suleman
As we gear up for the 2016 Futures Fellow Training Institute in Amsterdam, HSP recognizes one of last year's stellar Fellows, Raheel Suleman, who will return to this year's training as an Alumni Leader. We caught up with Raheel to hear more about his work in Pakistan, his takeaways from the Futures Fellowship, and his advice for incoming Fellows. What attracted you to apply for the 2015 Futures Fellowship Program? "When I first learned about HSP, I was very interested in working for this … Continue Reading
March 25, 2016
The Futures Of Health Security Meet: Two Week Countdown To Amsterdam
The next cohort of Health Security Futures Fellows was brought together in Lahore for an orientation for the intensive program slated for April in Amsterdam, and year-long program to follow. Twelve 2016 Futures Fellows from Pakistan along with five 2015 Futures Fellow alumni from across the provinces came together for the kickoff. Starting with an introduction from each Fellow, the meeting quickly delved into sessions addressing key concepts such as the vision and mission of HSP, the … Continue Reading
March 22, 2016
Meet The New Health Security Partners Spring Associates
The arrival of our new spring associates is a significant milestone for HSP. The associate program recruits the very best and brightest to HSP to not only bring new ideas and perspective to our programs, but also ultimately make major contributions to advance our mission. As the first ever associates for HSP, expectations are high for Kate Consavage and Hannah Cummins. Kate is set to design and launch HSP's communication strategy, leveraging her stellar background and interest in global … Continue Reading
February 11, 2016
The Zika Outbreak: Can We Find a Silver Lining?
Late last week, reports surfaced that the Brazilian government was considering amending its 2005 biosecurity law which restricts international sample sharing amid complaints that international researchers were having difficulty obtaining a sufficient quantity of Zika virus to design effective diagnostic tests and countermeasures (Source: CBC News). If such an amendment is made, it would significantly improve the global response capability by giving researchers around the world access to the … Continue Reading
February 09, 2016
Cooperative Solutions To Local, Global Threats
This week the HSP team attended the 2016 ASM Biodefense & Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Meeting. HSP Advisory Board member, Dr. Michael Callahan, delivered the opening address with the theme "Global Threats, Collaborative Solutions." In his talk "Biosurveillance within a Flat Global Landscape," Dr. Callahan covered a broad range of topics including Ebola, Zika, and the burden of emerging infectious diseases, and how globalization is increasing the rate and way in which these … Continue Reading
August 22, 2015
NGOs And The Global Health Security Agenda
The concept of global health security has incorporated itself rapidly into the vernacular of public health and national security circles. From journal articles to conferences, public sector initiatives to academic programs, the linking of health and security is becoming commonplace. The Ebola epidemic in West Africa accelerated the general understanding of the interdependencies of public health, emerging infectious disease, and national security. The launch of the Global Health Security … Continue Reading
June 26, 2015
From Indonesia To Washington, DC: The 2015 Stewards Fellowship Launch
Last week, we brought together a cohort of Indonesian university faculty to Georgetown University for a weeklong training for the 2015 Health Security Stewards Fellowship. During the first two days, they sat in as students to a condensed course on global health security, which is taught at Georgetown, Cornell, and the George Washington Universities. Guest lecturers included experts from these universities as well as from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and U.S. Department of … Continue Reading
March 13, 2015
A Successful Kick-off To The 2015 Futures Fellowship
Earlier this month, we launched our 2015 Health Security Futures Fellowship at the 7th International Conference for Health Issues in Arab Communities in Muscat, Oman. The Fellowship uniquely brought together 26 early-career students from the United States, Pakistan, and Iraqi Kurdistan. Throughout the week, the Fellows were paired with a foreign peer Fellow and attended a series of intensive training sessions ranging from non-communicable disease to intentional misuse of biological pathogens. … Continue Reading