Dr Thomas V. Inglesby

Dr Inglesby is Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he is also Professor in the Dept of Environmental Health & Engineering. He has a Joint Appointment in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.  

He previously served as Senior Policy Advisor for the White House in 2021–2022, where he was the White House National Coordinator for COVID testing. In 2020–2021 he worked as Senior Advisor on COVID, Office of the United States Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, and on the Biden-Harris Transition Team. He also served on the Maryland Governor's COVID Advisory Committee and as Commissioner, National Commission on COVID & Criminal Justice.  

Dr Inglesby was Chair, Board of Scientific Counselors, for the Center for Preparedness and Response at the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) from 2010 to 2019. He was Chair of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) National Health Security Preparedness Index. He has chaired or served on committees of the United States National Academies of Sciences, the United States Departments of HHS, Defense and Homeland Security. He has testified before the United States Congress on a range of issues.  

Dr Inglesby has been frequently published and interviewed by the media. His interviews include 60 Minutes, Fox News Sunday, Meet the Press, CBS Evening News and CNN, and his commentary and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and other outlets.  

Dr Inglesby has authored more than 170 publications – peer-reviewed research, reports and commentaries – on issues related to health security, epidemic preparedness, biothreats and COVID-19. He is Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security, which he started in 2003.  

Dr Inglesby received his BA from Georgetown University, and his MD from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his internal medicine and infectious diseases training at Johns Hopkins University.