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Ahead of the Game: Coronavirus

Combating Covid-19 Series

— Samuel Brannen, Rebecca Hersman

In an increasingly uncertain world, the analysis of CSIS’s International Security Program has consistently been ahead of the game. In this video from the CSIS Ahead of the Game series, experts Sam Brannen and Rebecca Hersman explain how their prescient simulation of an infectious disease outbreak involving a type of coronavirus predicted a scenario chillingly similar to today’s COVID-19 pandemic.

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Samuel Brannen and Rebecca Hersman, "Ahead of the Game: Coronavirus," Center for Strategic and International Studies, March 25, 2020, last modified March 25, 2020, https://defense360.csis.org/ahead-of-the-game-coronavirus/.

Samuel Brannen is a senior fellow in the International Security Program and director of the Risk and Foresight Group at CSIS. He previously served as director of A.T. Kearney’s Global Business Policy Council, where he advised CEOs on the business implications of global macro-trends, and was also a senior fellow at CSIS prior to that position.

Rebecca Hersman is director of the Project on Nuclear Issues and senior adviser for the International Security Program. Ms. Hersman joined CSIS in April 2015 from the Department of Defense (DOD), where she served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for countering weapons of mass destruction (WMD) since 2009. In this capacity, she led DOD policy and strategy to prevent WMD proliferation and use, reduce and eliminate WMD risks and respond to WMD dangers.

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