The COVID origins debate has raised many questions of critical importance for U.S. and global national security policy. In partnership with the Annenberg Public Policy Center, CERL held a panel in which scientists, national security professionals, and journalists addressed the COVID origins debate as well as the broader national security stakes and bioethical implications of gain-of-function research conducted domestically and between the U.S. and Chinese scientific communities.

The panelists were Ms. Katherine Eban, investigative journalist; Dr. Gigi Kwik Gronvall, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Dr. Jamie Metzl, OneShared.World; Dr. Sergei Pond, Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine of Temple University; and Dr. Susan Weiss, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. CERL’s Prof. Claire Finkelstein moderated.