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Jo L. Husbands

Jo L. Husbands is a scholar and senior project director with the NRC’s Board on Life Sciences, where she manages studies and projects to help mitigate the risks of the misuse of scientific research for biological weapons or bioterrorism and represents the NAS on the Biosecurity Working Group of the Inter Academy Panel on International Issues: The Global Network of Science Academies. Husbands is currently an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University.