Expert to address U.S. role in global health security, Ebola response

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A leading global health policy expert will visit Virginia Commonwealth University next week to discuss the United States' role in furthering global health security, as well as his observations from a recent trip to West Africa to examine responses to the Ebola epidemic.

J. Stephen Morrison, Ph.D., director of the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., will deliver his talk, "U.S. Efforts to Advance the World's Health Security," on Tuesday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Academic Learning Commons, room 1201.

The lecture is part of the Global and Human Security Speaker Series of the Department of Political Science in the College of Humanities and Sciences. It will be free and open to the public.

Morrison is senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and director of its Global Health Policy Center, a policy research institution focused on building bipartisan awareness about global health and its importance to U.S. national security.

He has directed several high-level commissions, and is a frequent commentator on U.S. foreign policy, global health, Africa and foreign assistance. He served in the Clinton administration, as committee staff in the House of Representatives, and taught for 12 years at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

 

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