Gigi Gronvall
Gigi Gronvall is a professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Gronvall is the author of the book Synthetic Biology: Safety, Security, and Promise (Health Security Press, 2016) and Preparing for Bioterrorism: The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Leadership in Biosecurity (2013). She has served on advisory committees to the State Department, Department of Defense, and the National Institutes of Health. Gronvall received a BS in biology from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University for work on T-cell receptor/MHC I interactions. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Gronvall is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Gain of Fiction: How COVID Origins Motivated Defunding of U.S. Science
Defunding scientific research in the United States has halted disease cure studies amid multiple infectious crises
Time to Act on New Bird Flu Spillovers
A strategic and biosecurity overview of what could protect U.S. agriculture and people from H5N1 infections
Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention's Contributions to Global Health Security
Countering Russian disinformation creates opportunities to enhance the BWC's role against dangerous pathogens
Disarming Russia's Bioweapons Disinformation
Protecting Ukraine's laboratory infrastructure is crucial to prevent a health crisis
Emergency Departments: A Site for Future COVID-19 Vaccinations
Given equity considerations, emergency departments should be used to expand vaccine distribution
Spread of COVID-19 Variants Adds to Urgency of Disease Control Efforts
Increasing evidence suggests new COVID-19 variants are more transmissible between people
Laboratory Diagnostics—Rarely Appreciated Until Something Goes Wrong
Problems with COVID-19 testing highlights need for strong U.S. labs to detect, control, and respond to emerging diseases