Pandemic Timeline

Month: January 1998

Dr. D.A. Henderson founds the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security

1998 [The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security] was founded in 1998 by [Donald] A. Henderson as the first nongovernment organization to study the vulnerability of the US civilian population to biological weapons and how to prevent, prepare, and respond to their consequences. Dr. Henderson served as Editor Emeritus of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security (formerly Biosecurity and…