J. Stephen Morrison

Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center
J. Stephen Morrison

J. Stephen Morrison, PhD, is a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and directs its Global Health Policy Center. Through several high-level commissions, he has shaped decisions in Congress and the administration on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health and gender equality, and health security, including pandemic preparedness. Currently, the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security is addressing critical post-Covid challenges. Since 2018, Morrison has led global health security fora at the annual Munich Security Conference. He directed The New Barbarianism, an award-winning documentary on violence against the health sector. Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he has directed seven episodes of the CSIS video series Ukraine: The Human Price of War. He cohosts the weekly podcast series The CommonHealth. From 2021 to 2023, he served as the James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. He is a trustee of the China Medical Board, a member of the board of the Rostropovich Vishnevskaya Foundation, and a member of advisory boards to the International Division at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Humanitarian Health. He served in the Clinton administration on the secretary of state’s Policy Planning Staff and on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa. He taught for 12 years at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, holds a PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale College.

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The CommonHealth

Emily Gibbons, Gilead Sciences: the lenacapavir partnership

Emily Gibbons, Gilead Sciences, explains the partnership between Gilead Sciences, the Trump administration, and the Global Fund to bring lenacapavir, the twice-yearly injectable HIV/AIDS prevention tool, to two million persons at-risk in ten African countries in three years.


 

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — March 13, 2026

The CommonHealth
The CommonHealth

The Resurgence of Measles in the United States | CommonHealth Live!

Listen to the recent broadcast conversation with Katherine Bliss and Stephen Morrison on the current measles outbreaks, threats posed by sustained disease transmission, and opportunities for collaboration to prevent and respond to health security challenges.

Podcast Episode by Katherine E. Bliss and J. Stephen Morrison — March 12, 2026

The CommonHealth
Into Africa

Pulse Check: The New U.S.-Africa Health Deals

Doris Macharia and Steve Morrison join Oge to examine what the America First health strategy gets right, what it has overlooked, and how its rapid rollout is playing out on the continent. 

Podcast Episode by Oge Onubogu and J. Stephen Morrison — March 12, 2026

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The CommonHealth

Book Event: Deployed by Kevin De Cock

This episode of The CommonHealth features a discussion of the recently published book, Deployed: A Physician on the Front Lines of Global Health, by Kevin M. De Cock.

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — March 10, 2026

The CommonHealth

Book Event: Deployed by Kevin De Cock

Please join the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security for a discussion of the recently published book, Deployed: A Physician on the Front Lines of Global Health, by Kevin. M. De Cock.

Event — March 9, 2026