¶ Clade X
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Clade X: A Global Health Security Simulation was a pandemic planning exercise led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. It simulated efforts to counter a fast-moving and deadly epidemic released on purpose by a terrorist group consisting of scientists and their rich backers wanting to reduce overpopulation.
The exercise was co-hosted by the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), the Global Health Council, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), and took place May 15, 2018 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, DC.[1]
The participants concluded that national and global health security should be “a higher priority for both the National Security Council and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, as well as for the agencies responsible for national security policy and diplomacy (eg, Department of Defense, Department of State and the intelligence community.”[2][3]
¶ Participants
The exercise was funded by Open Philanthropy.[4]
| Name | Role | Affiliation(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Toner | Team lead | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Also directed and designed Event 201 |
| Tom Inglesby | Team member | Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security | Atlantic Storm, Event 201, Dark Winter |
| Anita Cicero | Team member | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Covid Commission Planning Group, Drinker, Biddle & Reath | Event 201 |
| Randy Larsen | Team member | United States Air Force, National War College, George Washington University | Dark Winter, 9/11 Commission |
| Crystal Watson | Team member | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States Department of Homeland Security[5] | - |
| Gigi Kwik Gronvall | Team member | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies, Council on Foreign Relations, National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)[6] | Actively involved in COVID-19 testing industry |
| Jennifer Nuzzo | Team member | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Council on Foreign Relations, Brown University School of Public Health, Outbreak Observatory[7][8] | Supported people breaking social distancing protocols for George Floyd protests |
| Monica Schoch-Spana | Team member | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Working Group on Readying Populations for COVID-19 Vaccine, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies[9] | - |
| Tara Kirk Sell | Team member | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), United States Department of Homeland Security | Co-developed Event 201 |
| Amesh Adalja | Team member | Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), American College of Emergency Physicians, Allegheny County Medical Reserve Corps, United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), National Collegiate Athletic Association, International Monetary Fund (IMF), North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | - |
¶ External links
Clade X: A Global Health Security Pandemic Simulation Highlights Need to Support Global Health Security Initiatives. (2018, August 16). Global Health Council. http://archive.today/2022.04.12-160103/https://globalhealth.org/clade-x-a-global-health-security-pandemic-simulation-highlights-need-to-support-global-health-security-initiatives/ ↩︎
Watson, C., Toner, E. S., Shearer, M. P., Rivers, C., Meyer, D., Hurtado, C., Watson, M., Gronvall, G. K., Adalja, A. A., Sell, T. K., Inglesby, T., & Cicero, A. (2019). Clade X: A Pandemic Exercise. Health Security, 17(5), 410–417. https://doi.org/10.1089/hs.2019.0097 ↩︎
About Clade X, a tabletop exercise. (2018, May 15). Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. http://archive.today/2021.04.14-060502/https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/events/2018_clade_x_exercise/about-clade-x ↩︎
Mandal, A. (2018, July 31). World not ready to deal with a viral pandemic. News-Medical. https://web.archive.org/web/20210404013822/https://www.news-medical.net/news/20180731/World-not-ready-to-deal-with-a-viral-pandemic.aspx ↩︎
Biography of Crystal Watson with the Center for Health Security. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved April 12, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.04.12-152559/https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-people/C-Watson/ ↩︎
Biography of Gigi Kwik Gronvall with the Center for Health Security. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved April 12, 2022, from http://archive.today/2021.04.04-024137/https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-people/gronvall/ ↩︎
Jennifer Nuzzo. Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved April 12, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.04.12-153909/https://www.cfr.org/expert/jennifer-nuzzo ↩︎
Biography of Jennifer Nuzzo with the Center for Health Security. John Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved March 26, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220326032929/https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-people/nuzzo/ ↩︎
Biography of Monica Schoch-Spana with the Center for Health Security. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved April 12, 2022, from http://archive.today/2021.04.04-021756/https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-people/schoch-spana/ ↩︎