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J. Stephen Morrison

Practitioner Senior Fellow

Fast Facts

  • Senior vice president, Center for Strategic and International Studies
  • Founder and director, CSIS Global Health Policy Center
  • Director and producer, The New Barbarianism, an award-winning documentary about the surge of violence against the health sector

 

Areas Of Expertise

  • Foreign Affairs
  • World Happenings
  • Domestic Affairs
  • Health
  • Science and Technology

J. Stephen Morrison 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, Morrison is working on a series of live studio conversations, "Gaza: The Human Toll," which are a product of the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security.

The CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security is also 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, Morrison 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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CSIS
Dr. Taison Bell: “You Tend to Find Yourself Back Home.”
Dr. Taison Bell, MD, an acclaimed African-American doctor, educator, and emergency medicine director in Charlottesville, Virginia, shares his personal story of how medicine – back home in Virginia – became the center of his life. “Success was not assumed in my neighborhood.” As a child with asthma, he connected with his physician, as he did also with his Black dentist and several teachers. Such “affirmative experiences” made the dream “seem like it was achievable.”
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Miller Center Presents
Pursuing equity for the COVID vaccine
Join the University of Virginia's Center for Global Health Equity and UVA's Miller Center for an important conversation about the global distribution of the the COVID-19 vaccine. Student scholars and faculty mentors who are working to develop innovative approaches to addressing health disparities speak about pivotal issues that promote global health equity.
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Day 2
9/11: Twenty years later (Day 2)
On the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the 2021 Ambassador William C. Battle Symposium explores its impact on the United States at home and in the world. Drawing on expertise from scholars, practitioners, and journalists, this conference examines the history of this era with an eye toward its implications for the future.
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Miller Center Presents
The Biden administration inherits the Covid-19 crisis
As the U.S. continues to battle a second deadly Covid-19 surge, join several experts for a critical discussion about how the new Biden administration plans to adjust the country’s response, how the various vaccine development and deployment efforts are progressing, how U.S. health-care systems are managing in the current wave of infections, and whether the United States will rejoin the WHO.
J. Stephen Morrison Miller Center Presents
UVA Today
5 key takeaways from Biden's Covid-19 plan
We are in a grim period, but if we continue to follow public health measures and increase vaccinations, the end of the pandemic is at least in sight, according to experts interviewed Friday in a webinar hosted by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. The webinar, “The Biden Administration Inherits the COVID-19 Crisis,” focused on the challenges President Joe Biden faces and the public health measures his administration has already rolled out over the past two days. Moderator Guian McKee, an associate professor of presidential studies at the Miller Center, began with some stark graphs showing the exponential rise of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the United States around the holiday season.
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