The Covid Crisis Group is directed by Philip Zelikow, a history professor at the University of Virginia who was executive director of the 9/11 Commission, and the earlier, privately organized, Carter-Ford Commission on Federal Election Reform.
Members of the Covid Crisis Group are experts drawn from a variety of disciplines:
Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
John M. Barry, historian and author of The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (2004)
John Bridgeland, co-founder and CEO, COVID Collaborative, and former Director, White House Domestic Policy Council for President George W. Bush
Michael Callahan, staff physician, internal medicine and infectious disease, and director, clinical translation and mass casualty therapeutics, Massachusetts General Hospital
Nicholas A. Christakis, physician, author of Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live (2020), and director, Human Nature Lab, Yale University
Doug Criscitello, former executive director, MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy, and former CFO, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Small Business Administration
Charity Dean, CEO and founder, The Public Health Company, and former assistant director, California Department of Public Health
Victor Dzau, president, National Academy of Medicine
Gary Edson, president, COVID Collaborative, and former Deputy National Security Advisor and Deputy National Economic Advisor to President George W. Bush
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, vice provost for Global Initiatives and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania
Ruth Faden, founder and Wagley Professor, Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University
Baruch Fischhoff, Howard Heinz University Professor, Department of Engineering & Public Policy, Institute for Politics and Strategy, Carnegie Mellon University
Melissa Harvey, Assistant Vice President, Enterprise Preparedness and Emergency Operations at HCA Healthcare
Richard Hatchett, CEO, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)
David Heymann, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and former Head, Centre on Global Health Security, Chatham House, London
Kendall Hoyt, Assistant Professor, Geisel School of Medicine, and Senior Lecturer, Thayer School of Engineering, and Faculty Director, Pandemic Security Project at the Dickey Center, Dartmouth College
Andrew Kilianski, Senior Director, Emerging Infectious Diseases, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), and adjunct faculty, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
James Lawler, Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, and Executive Director, International Programs and Innovation, Global Center for Health Security, University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)
Alexander J. Lazar, Professor of Pathology & Genomic Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
James Le Duc, former director, Galveston National Laboratory, and adjunct professor, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Marc Lipsitch, Professor of Epidemiology and Director, Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
Anup Malani, Lee and Brena Freeman Professor, University of Chicago Law School, and professor, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago
Monique K. Mansoura, Executive Director for Global Health Security and Biotechnology, The MITRE Corporation
Mark McClellan, former FDA commissioner, former CMS administrator, and director, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University
Carter Mecher, Medical Advisor, The Public Health Company, and former Senior Medical Advisor, Office of Public Health, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and former Director of Medical Preparedness Policy, White House Homeland Security Council and National Security Staff
Michael Osterholm, director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), University of Minnesota
David A. Relman, Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor in Medicine, and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University
Robert Rodriguez, professor of emergency medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine
Carl Schramm, University Professor, Syracuse University
Emily Silverman, Assistant Volunteer Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, and founder/host of The Nocturnists