Biocontainment Unit

This month, the BCU team traveled to Denver for the annual National Ebola Training and Education Center (NETEC) Summit. The summit brought together groups from… Read More »NETEC Summit

On May 15-16, 2019, the Johns Hopkins Biocontainment Unit–in collaboration with the National Ebola Training and Education Center (NETEC)–hosted a comprehensive workshop on high consequence… Read More »High Consequence Pathogen Preparedness Workshop

Over the past few years, the BCU team has learned the importance of taking a good travel and social history. The current measles outbreak is… Read More »Help Minimize the Measles Outbreak

March continues to be busy for the BCU team. The recent Hopkins On Alert quarterly newsletter, through the Johns Hopkins Critical Event Preparedness and Response… Read More »March Updates

The month of February saw many exciting accomplishments and opportunities for the BCU team. On February 4, The Hill published an op’ed written by BCU Medical… Read More »The BCU on Capitol Hill

To celebrate the holidays, the BCU team threw a party at Urban Axes Baltimore on Saturday, December 15. With 33 attendees, this team building exercise… Read More »Celebrating the Holidays

On October 23, the BCU team hosted a tabletop exercise to discuss the logistics behind transporting and caring for pediatric patients with suspected Lassa fever.… Read More »Tabletop Exercises

On Wednesday, August 29, the BCU team held a short exercise called Operation Limelight for congressional staffers and media outlets. Operation Limelight was a demonstration… Read More »Operation Limelight