At the World Health Summit in Berlin earlier this month, I was pleased to hear discussions highlighting the crucial role of health initiatives in overall global security.

This is hardly a new topic, but it’s increasingly relevant. The risks from natural, accidental, and deliberate spread of infectious agents are escalating and with advances in synthetic biology and artificial intelligence, outbreaks have the potential to be far more lethal. Strong, well-functioning health systems that improve people’s health and help prevent outbreaks of emerging new infectious diseases are as vital to global security as advanced weaponry, military strategy, and intelligence.

It’s a message I delivered several times over the years at the most important annual forum on global security: the Munich Secu

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