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Beth Cameron

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Global team builder and health security professional working to make the world a better place. Professor of the Practice at @Brown_SPH. My own views.

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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Please join us ⬇️ I am delighted to be a part of this amazing group: 🎤 Zibusiso Masuku, Sandra Matinyi, Thokozani Nyasulu Liwewe, and @wilmotjames.bsky.social -- speaking about a deep passion of ours @pandemiccenter.bsky.social: Building the next generation of biosecurity leadership ⚡
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
👏 Please share widely: Calling for applications in Africa for our new bio threat reduction course and fellowship!
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
(2) 🤝 All of this will be in partnership with our friends and colleagues at the Africa CDC, @cepi.net, @ibbis-bio.bsky.social, the BWC ISU, Biosecurity Game Changers past and future and others!
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I am thrilled and grateful to @carnegie.org for this phenomenal opportunity to support rising African biosecurity leaders in making lasting change! ⚡ Watch this space for updates on this initiative and for calls to apply for courses and fellowships ⚡🧵
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I am thankful for so many teams, friends, students, and colleagues that I have worked with, who co-lead these accomplishments and provide hope every day for a better tomorrow.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
It’s an honor and a privilege to be included in the 2025 #FuturePerfect25 list, which celebrates the fight for a healthier, fairer future. I’m humbled to be part of this ambitious project from @vox.com and in the company of so many changemakers I revere.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
(7) Thank you to the dozens of experts who informed the work, particularly the working group leads Elizabeth Radin; Shanelle Hall; Raffaele Cordiner; Liza Munira and secretariat Melissa Laitner, Emily Shambaugh, Carolyn Shore, Sabrina Chwalek, Yuliya Velhan, Gabby Chalker. Onward to execution!
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
(6) HLIP Co-Chairs are @jarottingen.bsky.social, Jean Kaseya, Jane Halton, Benedict Oramah; with panelists @noiweala.bsky.social @rglenner.bsky.social @christopherelias.bsky.social @drsethberkley.bsky.social David Miliband Kiran Mazumdar-Shah Keizo Takemi; Amanda Glassman Patricia Reilly Liza Munira
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
(5) What’s next? For this month’s @pandemiccenter.bsky.socialPandemics and Society webinar, please join the HLIP virtual public launch on November 21 from 11:00 AM-12:30 PM EST, hosted by NAM to spur swift action.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
(4) What can you do? Please read the recs and commentary in Lancet bit.ly/4pqW8Yb. And please join in working to execute the recommended five urgent and detailed actions in advance of the 2026 UN High Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response.
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Closing the deal: a G20 panel report on financing for pandemic threats
Pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (pandemic PPR) stands at a precipice because of inadequate financing at a time of shifting geopolitical alignment in global health. In 2021, in response...
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
(3) In light of these urgent risks, the HLIP, informed by health and financing experts from around the world, rolled up its sleeves to focus on the operational needs that can save lives and attain a more speedy and equitable response to the next biological threat.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
(2) With development assistance falling and political will waning, biological risks are on the rise. The pandemic of tomorrow is not a theoretical risk – it can happen at any time, yet countries are still grossly under-invested in pandemic preparedness and response.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Today, the High Level Independent Panel (HLIP) is releasing a new, bold & practical roadmap for pandemic security. I am honored to serve as Special Advisor to the panel. Read the recommendations here bit.ly/pandemicfina... and here bit.ly/4pqW8Yb ⬇️🧵
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Pandemic Financing
The G20 High Level Independent Panel sets minimum annual benchmarks for pandemic financing and urges governments to take action by or before the September
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
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...
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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.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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!
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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...
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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 ...
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Thanks to @cepi.net and @nti.org for modeling the world we want to live in. @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social @wilmotjames.bsky.social
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Opportunity for readers: Consider visiting mscbiosecuritydeclaration.org to support the MSC Biosecurity Emerging Leaders Declaration.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
👇 I'm delighted to share this new op-ed in @thebulletin.org from rising leaders in biosecurity and #BiosecurityGameChangers. thebulletin.org/2025/05/youn... 🧵
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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...
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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. 🧵
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I got permission to post this photo from American heroes -- who we were lucky to have protecting us.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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. 🧵
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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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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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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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.
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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...
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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 ⬇️
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Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health @pandemiccenter.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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. More ⤵️
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CEPI, Brown, NTI Partner with Rising Leaders to Take Biological Threats off the Table
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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).
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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...
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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
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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.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Please join in honoring the entire USAID team tonight, who have spent their careers sprinting to support neighbors and protect Americans. Those overseas are coming home chaotically and likely without planned housing or jobs. They fight for us; they deserve better. Thank you @USAID.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Equally, I believe that most Americans would oppose tonight's withdrawal of USAID's deployed force, an action that makes us less safe and less secure. USAID works to *prevent* war. It keeps disasters and epidemics from reaching our shores & reduces the poverty that gives rise to global instability.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I believe that most Americans are passionate about helping their neighbors. They know that being present and keeping our word in times of crisis is how we prevent conflict, create allies, and keep violence and instability at bay.
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Beth Cameron @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The United States is less secure without its deployed USAID Force. Tonight I am left speechless by this action and its reverberating impact for us all. USAID is an indispensable part of our national security and the face of America in the world. Please honor our USAID Force tonight. 🧵
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Jen Psaki @jenpsaki.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Track the impact of PEPFAR funding halt
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Ashish K Jha @ashishkjha.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
There have been 12 outbreaks of Ebola or Marburg (a close cousin) in the past 4 years Zero have landed in the US Why? Because of people like Stephanie Psaki and a US deeply engaged in the world So Stephanie asks Who is protecting Americans from Marburg now? www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/m...
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Who is protecting Americans from Marburg right now?
The WHO and the CDC coordinated well when faced with viral outbreaks. This is no time to demolish a well-oiled machine.
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