Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Cameron is a Professor of the Practice and Senior Advisor to the Pandemic Center at the Brown University School of Public Health. She has worked at the highest levels within and outside of government to facilitate change, spending two tours on the White House National Security Council staff, including as a Special Assistant to the President, twice helping establish and lead the Directorate on Global Health Security and Biodefense. In this and other positions, she builds and leads robust teams focused, every day, on leaning forward to prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to biological crises. Beth is also a non-resident senior advisor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Global Health Policy Center, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a practitioner senior fellow of the UVA Miller Center.

Previously, Dr. Cameron held senior posts at the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. She served as a Vice President at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, where she was an architect of NTI | bio, a program aimed at countering biological catastrophes. She has been instrumental to developing, coordinating, launching, and implementing the U.S. global COVID-19 response, the Pandemic Fund, the U.S. National Biodefense Strategy, the Global Health Security Agenda, the Development Finance Institution Medical Countermeasures Surge Financing Initiative, the Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction biosecurity effort, and other initiatives focused on improving biosecurity and biosafety globally.