Julie E. Fischer

Dr. Fischer is a Senior Associate with the Henry L. Stimson Center. She leads the Center’s Global Health Security project, which explores the growing demands on the world's public health infrastructure, from policies intended to contain transnational disease threats to a new role for international health interventions in defense and diplomacy. 

Dr. Fischer is a former Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow (2003–04) and American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Fellow (2000–01). As professional staff with the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, she worked on issues related to domestic terrorism preparedness and the consequences of biological, chemical, and radiological exposures during military service.

She served as a senior research fellow at the University of Washington/Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, and an independent consultant to a Thai-U.S. collaboration aimed at strengthening Thai capacity to identify and control emerging infections of regional and global significance.

Dr. Fischer received a BA from Hollins University and a PhD in microbiology and immunology from Vanderbilt University.

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