The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (JHCHS) is a nonprofit organisation based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Their mission is to protect people's health from epidemics and pandemics and ensure that communities are resilient to major challenges. JHCHS is also concerned with biological weapons and the implications of emerging biotechnology.

Their work includes:

• Researching scientific advances, technological innovations, and policy approaches that can improve health security

• Providing policy advice through a wide variety of projects.

• Facilitating interdisciplinary and international collaborations with experts, policymakers, and the private sector

• Publishing Health Security, a peer-reviewed journal aimed at practitioners, policymakers, scientists, and government officials in military, scientific, health, and other related fields

• Working to educate the next generation of policymakers and public health experts by running educational programmes and fellowships for students and emerging biosecurity leaders

JHCHS also runs the Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Pandemic Preparedness & Health Security, an educational forum in which congressional and federal agency staff meet to discuss improvements to US health security.

For more information about JHCHS and their work, visit their website.