Beth Cameron
@bethcameron-dc.bsky.social
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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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 ⬇️🧵
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.
Meet @vox.com’s 2025 #FuturePerfect25. These changemakers, including our Senior Adviser @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social are advancing global health and development at a time of unprecedented challenges, proving that meaningful progress is still possible.
See the full list on Vox ⤵️
See the full list on Vox ⤵️
The 2025 Future Perfect 25
Meet the heroes keeping global progress alive.
www.vox.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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.
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 ⬇️🧵
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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 ⬇️🧵
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...
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.
www.theatlantic.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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...
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...
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 ...
www.csis.org
July 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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...
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.
NEW: Beth Cameron, @craigspencer.bsky.social and I share the impact of US funding cuts and policy changes to global health security now and in the future in Vaccine journal.
"A tale of two U.S. Global health security futures—withdraw or evolve?"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"A tale of two U.S. Global health security futures—withdraw or evolve?"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A tale of two U.S. Global health security futures—withdraw or evolve?
Rapid detection and response to biological threats are critical to global health security. For decades, the United States has played a leading role in…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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.
👇 I'm delighted to share this new op-ed in @thebulletin.org from rising leaders in biosecurity and #BiosecurityGameChangers. thebulletin.org/2025/05/youn... 🧵
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...
thebulletin.org
May 24, 2025 at 1:13 AM
👇 I'm delighted to share this new op-ed in @thebulletin.org from rising leaders in biosecurity and #BiosecurityGameChangers. thebulletin.org/2025/05/youn... 🧵
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. 🧵
What Just Happened:
Top experts write on exactly why the Trump administration's sweeping changes to HHS will make the United States highly insecure, not healthy.
Plus what indicators to keep an eye on in coming weeks and months.
By @spsaki.bsky.social and @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social
Top experts write on exactly why the Trump administration's sweeping changes to HHS will make the United States highly insecure, not healthy.
Plus what indicators to keep an eye on in coming weeks and months.
By @spsaki.bsky.social and @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social
Dropping U.S. Biodefenses: Why Cuts to Federal Health Agencies Make Americans Less Safe
The Trump administration's sweeping changes to the Department of Health and Human Services will make the United States highly insecure, not healthy.
www.justsecurity.org
April 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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. 🧵
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. 🧵
March 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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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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.
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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March 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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.
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.
Uganda's Ebola outbreak has worsened — but the country’s ability to fight it has been severely weakened by the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign assistance, per recording of US officials obtained by @lattif.bsky.social @stephanienolen.bsky.social.
Eye-catching + worrying scoop.
Eye-catching + worrying scoop.
As Ebola Spreads in Uganda, Trump Aid Freeze Hinders Effort to Contain It, U.S. Officials Fear
Two more people are reported dead from the disease, and dozens are in isolation, as the outbreak grows.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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.
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.
Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.”
That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social.
“There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.
That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social.
“There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.
Musk claims DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials disagree.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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.
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 ⬇️
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.
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CEPI, Brown, NTI Partner with Rising Leaders to Take Biological Threats off the Table
pandemics.sph.brown.edu
February 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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 ⬇️
Reposted by Beth Cameron
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 ⤵️
More ⤵️
CEPI, Brown, NTI Partner with Rising Leaders to Take Biological Threats off the Table
pandemics.sph.brown.edu
February 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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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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.
This weekend we are co-hosting a side event at #MSC for next gen global south biosecurity talent! The Pandemic Center's @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social, with partners from @cepivaccines.bsky.social & @nti.org, with a focus on biosecurity, and the #100DaysMission.
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At Munich Security Conference: Brown Pandemic Center Partners to Advance Next Gen Global South Leadership in Biosecurity and the 100 Days Mission
pandemics.sph.brown.edu
February 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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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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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February 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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...
Reposted by Beth Cameron
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
The last round are debunked below. wapo.st/3ErHBZM
And I'll unpack the reality in this 🧵, too. 1/13
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.
wapo.st
February 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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
The last round are debunked below. wapo.st/3ErHBZM
And I'll unpack the reality in this 🧵, too. 1/13
Reposted by Beth Cameron
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.
February 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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.
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. 🧵
February 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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. 🧵
Reposted by Beth Cameron
Reposted by Beth Cameron
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...
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...
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.
www.statnews.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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...
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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Confronting risks of mirror life
Broad discussion is needed to chart a path forward.
www.science.org
December 12, 2024 at 8:10 PM
👇READ THIS👇 A vital new article about the dangers of mirror life, authored by a diverse, credible, and international group of scientists around the world who are dedicated to the peaceful benefits of biology. THREAD.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...