The Carnegie Endowment and the Council on Strategic Risks will host a panel on Kazakhstan's increasingly global role in the changing threat landscape of weapons of mass destruction on 30 January 2024 in Washington DC and by webcast. Upon the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan found itself in possession of the world's fourth-largest

A World Health Organization (WHO) update on COVID-19 will be held 1 February 2024 via an EPI-WIN webinar. COVID-19 remains a major public health concern. WHO experts will address what variants are circulating, their risk and impact, and what can be done to prevent and protect against infections, severe disease, post-COVID-19 condition and deaths. The

A virtual event featuring an expert panel focused on What's Next for the Pandemic Financing Agenda? will be held 7 February 2024. As the world approaches the four-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, questions remain as to whether we are more prepared and ready than before. A recently published CGD working paper

The Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and Emergencies will convene again on 15 February 2024. In this meeting, Forum members will: Identify the seminal social and behavioral sciences (SBS) lessons learned from COVID-19 and other past public health emergencies Explore how SBS lessons, concepts, and theories can be leveraged to inform

The Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC) will host a webinar on The Clear and Present Threat of Chem-Bio and Data and Cyberscientific and Technological (CB-DCST) Tools and Techniques on 15 February 2024. Given the current global shift toward symmetrical warfare, major powers and nonstate proxies are developing radical leveling and emerging technology

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will host a webinar on "Assessing the Zoonotic Risk of Pre-emergent Viruses" on 20 February 2024 as part of the the Advancing Threat Agnostic Biodefense Webinar Series. These webinars bring together like-minded science and policy members of the biodefense community to discuss relevant research activities as well as barriers and