J. Stephen Morrison, PhD, is a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and directs its Global Health Policy Center. Through several high-level commissions, he has shaped decisions in Congress and the administration on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health and gender equality, and health security, including pandemic preparedness. Currently, the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security is addressing critical post-Covid challenges. Since 2018, Morrison has led global health security fora at the annual Munich Security Conference. He directed The New Barbarianism, an award-winning documentary on violence against the health sector. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he has directed seven episodes of the CSIS video series Ukraine: The Human Price of War. He cohosts the weekly podcast series The CommonHealth. From 2021 to 2023, he served as the James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. He is a trustee of the China Medical Board, a member of the board of the Rostropovich Vishnevskaya Foundation, and a member of advisory boards to the International Division at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Humanitarian Health. He served in the Clinton administration on the secretary of state’s Policy Planning Staff and on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa. He taught for 12 years at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, holds a PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale College.
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Facts and Falsehoods: Israel's Attacks Against Gaza's Hospitals
J. Stephen Morrison in Think Global Health — March 15, 2024
Opinion Israel and Hamas probe for a pause that both sides need
J. Stephen Morrison in The Washington Post — January 24, 2024
Leonard Leo’s Dark Money Groups Are Targeting AIDS Relief
J. Stephen Morrison in The New Republic — January 18, 2024
Mandy Cohen looks to restore the CDC’s credibility
J. Stephen Morrison in Washington Post — November 13, 2023
How CDC’s new director is trying to regain trust shattered by covid
J. Stephen Morrison in Washington Post — November 12, 2023
Only 43 of more than 8,000 discharged from US military for refusing Covid vaccine have rejoined
J. Stephen Morrison in CNN — October 2, 2023
Drugs Are Not Microchips: Whither Industrial Policy In The Life Sciences?
J. Stephen Morrison in Health Affairs — August 18, 2023
Biden’s pick to lead the CDC faces tough summer on Capitol Hill
J. Stephen Morrison in Roll Call — June 5, 2023
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Noam Unger, CSIS: The urgency of health adaptation? “It’s self-evident but requires massive changes.”
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison and Noam Unger — March 18, 2024
National Security Memorandum 20 & Gaza Scenarios
Event — March 13, 2024
Gaza: The Human Toll—Episode 7
Event — March 1, 2024
Donald G. McNeil, The Wisdom of Plagues
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — February 15, 2024
The CommonHealth Live! WHO Senior Advisor Dr. Scott Dowell on the Global Health Emergency Corps
Event — February 13, 2024
The CommonHealth Live! WHO Senior Advisor Dr. Scott Dowell on the Global Health Emergency Corps
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — February 13, 2024
Gaza: The Human Toll—Episode 6
Event — February 7, 2024
2024 Global Forecast: Vying for Influence in the Global South
Digital Report by Michelle Strucke, J. Stephen Morrison, Noam Unger, Caitlin Welsh, Richard M. Rossow, Gregory B. Poling, Ryan C. Berg, Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Craig Cohen, and Alex Kisling — February 7, 2024
Dr. Sandro Galea, Boston University SPH, ‘Within Reason’
Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — February 1, 2024