About

BIOGRAPHY
Gigi Kwik Gronvall, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is an immunologist by training. Her work focuses on minimizing the technical and social risks of the life sciences while advancing biosecurity, biosafety, ethics, and the bioeconomy. She served on advisory committees to the DoD, State Department, and NIH, and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She leads work on improving indoor air quality to reduce pathogen transmission, and was a public health advisor to the Baltimore City Public School system for diagnostic testing during the acute days of the COVID-19 pandemic. She is the author of Synthetic Biology: Safety, Security, and Promise (2016) and Preparing for Bioterrorism: The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Leadership in Biosecurity (2012). Her forthcoming book, Our Biological Future: A Crossroads for Life, Health, and the Planet will be published in 2027 by Johns Hopkins University Press.