Beth Cameron

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.

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...

We also discuss @cepi.net's model new biosecurity program, how CEPI benefits businesses, and how it aims to deliver on equitable access to vaccines everywhere, on time, during health emergencies. Tune in!

In this episode @drrhatchett.bsky.social dives into why @cepi.net is critical to national security and how to chart a path forward to deliver on the 100 Days Mission in the midst of major changes to the global health landscape.

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 ...

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...

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.

Thanks to @cepi.net and @nti.org for modeling the world we want to live in. @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social @wilmotjames.bsky.social

Thanks to authors Kirsten Angeles, Shrestha Rath, Jose Garza-Martinez, Jon Arizti Sanz, Yorgo El Moubayed, MSC biosecurity emerging leaders & the @pandemiccenter.bsky.social Biosecurity Game Changers.

Opportunity for readers: Consider visiting mscbiosecuritydeclaration.org to support the MSC Biosecurity Emerging Leaders Declaration.

Cautionary note from the authors: A world that is truly prepared for bio threats can only emerge if current leaders -- including at the local level and among international organizations -- are serious about providing next gen leaders with the opportunity to inform and influence decision-makers now.

I am proud to be associated with the next gen leaders who penned this article -- they give me confidence that we *will* be able to get prepared for the next pandemic.

It's a pleasure to lift this thoughtful piece about the critical role of rising leaders in decisions about the future of global health and biosecurity.

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...

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

This administration is trying to abolish one leg of the stool (USAID), has signaled deep cuts at DoD, and has thrown HHS into chaos. This is not a recipe for health, it's a recipe for disaster.

Before Jan 2025, our biodefense system was created over two decades of carefully crafted programs at HHS, DoD, and USAID. These three legs in the stool ensure we can prevent, detect, and respond to any bio threat.

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. 🧵

I got permission to post this photo from American heroes -- who we were lucky to have protecting us.

I will end the week by repeating a mantra from one of the best people I know:
Soft Power Saves Lives
Soft Power Prevents War
Soft Power Drives Economies
Soft Power Made America Great

I expected to find a somber mood. Instead, as I should have expected from people who exemplify the American and human spirit, I witnessed their RESILIENCE, STRENGTH, RELENTLESSNESS, and EMPATHY. At this fork in the road, they are on the right side of history.

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. 🧵

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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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...

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.

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.

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.

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 ⬇️

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

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.

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Thanks to: CEPI's Jane Halton, Elders Helen Clark, @wellcometrust.bsky.social @jarottingen.bsky.social, @who.int Jeremy Farrar, @nti.org @ernestmoniz.bsky.social, PAN @eloisetodd.bsky.social, @flagshippioneering.bsky.social Noubar Afeyan & @rajpanjabi.bsky.social @t-inglesby.bsky.social and more.

Focusing on the future has been an antidote to the overwhelming and shocking actions taking place at home. I invite you to take a look at their bios and welcome your involvement in this effort as we chart its next phase. It's been a shot in the arm (pun intended).

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.

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...

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.

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