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Date and Location

November 3, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
L-166

Contact

617-495-1360
Health Security is National Security: A Discussion with Dawn O'Connell

Join us for lunch with Dawn O’Connell, former Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for Preparedness and Response, as she discusses the connection between health security and national security.


This session will examine the important role health security plays across an increasingly complex national security landscape. We will discuss the importance of medical countermeasures, disease surveillance, and preparedness planning in protecting our country from these threats.

Lunch will be served.


Please register with a valid Harvard email address. In keeping with our long tradition at the IOP to ensure honest and candid discussions of politics, this conversation is off-the-record.

Speakers and Presenters

Dawn O'Connell, Former Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for Preparedness and Response

Organizer

Institute of Politics (IOP)