Only a month after the Center for Health Security reintegrated itself into the Johns Hopkins University, the center is set to receive $16 million in funding for research on strengthening public health and security.
The school announced yesterday that the Open Philanthropy Project is giving the center a $16 million grant that will be spread out over three years. The money will be devoted to research about global biological risks — namely epidemics and pandemics – and how to respond to them, how technology athose risks, improving national and international biological safety standards and awareness about biosecurity among policymakers, according to a release.
The Open Philanthropy Project gives money to organizations that conduct research and share their findings openly with the world so that others can build on them. It focuses on four areas: U.S. policy, global catastrophic risks, scientific research and global health and development.
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