J. Stephen Morrison

J. Stephen Morrison is director of the Global Health Policy Center and senior vice president at CSIS. Under his leadership, the Center secured a multiyear $6.3-million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with major contributions from other corporate and foundation contributors, which underwrite work to advance a long-term strategic U.S. approach to global health, cultivate new global health champions, enrich our understanding of the security and foreign policy dimensions of global health, and link Washington-based work to emerging policy expertise in key developing and middle income countries. Beginning in the spring of 2009, he directed the CSIS Commission on a Smart Global Health Policy, comprising 25 diverse high-level opinion leaders. Its findings are detailed in the final report Report of the CSIS Commission on Smart Global Health Policy: A Healthier, Safer, and More Prosperous World, published in March 2010.

Dr. Morrison writes widely, testifies often before Congress, and is a frequent contributor in major media on U.S. foreign policy, global health, Africa, and foreign assistance. He served for 7 years in the Clinton administration, 4 years as committee staff in the House of Representatives, and taught for 12 years as an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin and is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale College.