The center works to protect people's health from epidemics and pandemics and ensures that communities are resilient to major challenges.
It also provides editorial oversight for the journal Health Security,[23] which was launched in 2003 and called Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science until 2015.
[25] The Open Philanthropy Project's grant writeup of CHS noted several publications:[1] The center has published in journals including JAMA and The Lancet.
Drawing from actual events, Clade X identified important policy issues and preparedness challenges that could be solved with sufficient political will and attention.
[28][29] On October 18, 2019, the CHS partnered with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to host the tabletop exercise Event 201 in New York City.
[30][31] According to the CHS, "the exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences".
[30] Event 201 simulated the effects of a fictional coronavirus passing to humans via infected pig farms in Brazil with "no possibility of a vaccine being available in the first year".