Stephanie Psaki

Stephanie Psaki is a public health leader with expertise at the intersection of national security and global health. She previously served as special assistant to the president and the inaugural US coordinator for global health security at the White House, a role that included overseeing the federal government’s response to biological threats such as mpox, Ebola, and Marburg.

She is currently a distinguished senior fellow at the Brown University School of Public Health and a member of the Bipartisan Alliance on Global Health Security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Psaki previously worked at NGOs and research institutions, including Partners in Health, the US National Institutes of Health, and the Population Council. She has published about public health in both academic journals and publications including The Atlantic and Time. Psaki earned a PhD from Johns Hopkins and a Master of Science degree from Harvard.