Michaela R. Simoneau

Global health security @CSIS @CSISHealth | ELBI 2023 @BSPH_CHS | @BostonCollege alumna | @GWpublichealth | jazz enthusiast | she/her | views mine

[CSIS @CSIS]

🎧 NEW: @CSISHealth's @MichSimoneau joins @handrewschwartz to discuss the recent outbreak of the bird flu in the United States and the tools available to stop the spread of the virus.

Listen in: https://t.co/CDqTG0lAnj

[CDC Director @CDCDirector]

Productive discussion with @SenatorBurr & @MorrisonCSIS about improvements @CDCgov has made in data, comms, & our ability to respond to the next threat. The critical work must continue to protect the health of our country. Big thanks to @CSIS for hosting! https://t.co/mUbpdg6c1n

[CSIS @CSIS]

"As 2024 closes, the United States continues to fall short in its management of the threat posed by bird flu," warns @CSISHealth.

Read more about stepping up the U.S. response: https://t.co/itCvrupOmd

[rani – Resilience Action Network International @rani_action]

📰NEW: @AfricaCDC Director General Dr. Jean Kaseya declares Africa’s first-ever continental public health emergency. The announcement comes as #mpox cases are reported in a number of countries.

[CSIS Global Health @CSISHealth]

NEW: As war in Gaza enters its fourth month, @lenrubenstein & @MorrisonCSIS argue that much tougher US leadership is needed to press for urgent changes by Israel & Hamas to stabilize & protect the civilian population: https://t.co/cmy2WUpZTW

[CSIS Global Health @CSISHealth]

Biosafety & biosecurity are critically important areas where individual freedom, ethics, scientific progress, & national security converge. @MorrisonCSIS & @MichSimoneau lay out 8 steps to promote a safer, more secure, & more innovative global bioeconomy: https://t.co/h5YC92ePEr

[CSIS @CSIS]

HAPPENING SOON: @CSISHealth premiers its new event series, "Gaza: The Human Toll." The show will capture the evolving humanitarian and health situation in Gaza, unpack policy and operational choices, and feature key expert insights.

Watch live: https://t.co/i1KKN5mxiF

[CDC Director @CDCDirector]

Today is #WorldPolioDay!

As a member of the Polio Oversight Board, I’m joining @WHO, @Rotary, @UNICEF, @gatesfoundation, and @gavi in the call to #MakePolioHistory.

We have the tools and knowledge to #EndPolio.

Learn more: https://t.co/HGfD5GJWiE

[CSIS @CSIS]

"Biothreats are increasingly complex and dangerous and the defense enterprise urgently needs a reformed structure and renewed energy to meet it," write CSIS's @EHarding_DC and @MorrisonCSIS on the 2023 Biodefense Posture Review.

Dive in here:
https://t.co/qh4KM3lXtE

[CSIS Global Health @CSISHealth]

TOMORROW: Join Assistant Secretary of Defense Hon. Deborah Rosenblum @DeptofDefense @MorrisonCSIS & the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for a webcast on the Department of Defense’s newly released Biodefense Posture Review.

🕐August 23 at 10:30am ET

Watch here: https://t.co/eFWvK6mWkj

[CSIS @CSIS]

"The United States has to do more to address biological threats," says @CSISHealth expert @MichSimoneau on post-Covid U.S. health security strategy.

Explore the full report here: https://t.co/TS8Bezw3UP

[CSIS Global Health @CSISHealth]

Despite political divisions, several forces are driving U.S. policymakers toward greater engagement in health security: geopolitical competition, the pace of technological discovery, and the lessons of Covid. Read more from @MorrisonCSIS and @MichSimoneau: https://t.co/12RdVUvaD8

[CSIS @CSIS]

"There has to be room to really engage them so they don't fall by the wayside and go the Wagner way." @CSISAfrica expert @MvembaDizolele explains what's happening with Niger's coup and what it means for the region and the globe.

Watch the full video here: https://t.co/yJte6D3L0i

[Michaela R. Simoneau @MichSimoneau]

While we can certainly hope the worst of Covid is behind us, that is not a viable strategy to strengthen our our collective pandemic security. @MorrisonCSIS & I explore several options for greater US engagement: https://t.co/N0Pd6ime5k

[CSIS Global Health @CSISHealth]

Beneath partisan bickering is a bipartisan recognition that the U.S. must do more to address biological threats, as a matter of both moral responsibility & national security interests. Read about how policymakers should approach the post-Covid moment: https://t.co/12RdVUvaD8

[Health Affairs @Health_Affairs]

@MorrisonCSIS and @MichSimoneau from @CSIS & @CSISHealth caution that advancing a US industrial policy on drugs may not be realistic under the current conditions. https://t.co/eNLG6Dxn45

[CSIS @CSIS]

NEW: Post-Covid, U.S. health security strategy should restore trust, sustain bipartisan achievements, operationalize new security frameworks, accelerate technology, and elevate U.S. diplomacy, write @CSISHealth's @MorrisonCSIS and @MichSimoneau.

Dive in: https://t.co/TS8BezwBKn

[CSIS @CSIS]

Drugs are not microchips. Advancing U.S. industrial policy on drugs will require ample public-sector funding, industry buy-in, and bipartisan support in Congress to do so.

Read more from CSIS's @MorrisonCSIS & @MichSimoneau in @Health_Affairs:
https://t.co/cGk9PKaGEo

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

I wanted to share some of my thoughts on today's Supreme Court decision on affirmative action:

[NTI @NTI_WMD]

Anyone participating in "Barbenheimer" should see #Oppenheimer first. Trust us on this one.

Read our full statement ⬇️

[Tom Inglesby, MD @T_Inglesby]

White House released plan today that contains ambitious and valuable goals for how the country should use biotechnology and biomanufacturing to take on serious national challenges. Some of those goals include: 1/x https://t.co/UB277hvvcX