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Kendall Hoyt is the new Faculty Director for the Dickey Global Health Initiative's Pandemic Security Project, an 18-month endeavor to explore and analyze the lessons surfaced during the global response to the pandemic. She also serves as an Assistant Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and a Senior Lecturer at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College where she teaches courses on biosecurity, health systems, and technological innovation. Her research is focused on health security, innovation policy, and vaccine development. She serves on the US Covid Commission Planning Group . She has served as a consultant for the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and the Nuclear Threat Initiative. She is the author of Long Shot: Vaccines for National Defense , Harvard University Press, 2012.
Kendall Hoyt received her Ph.D. in the History and Social Study of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002. She was a Fellow in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government from 2002-2004 and a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School from 2017-2019. Prior to obtaining her degree, she worked in the International Security and International Affairs division of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Washington DC office of McKinsey and Company, and the Center for the Management of Innovation and Technology at the National University of Singapore.
A New Incentive to Accelerate Epidemic Vaccines, (manuscript) with Chris Snyder and Dimitrios Gouglas
MCMx: A Proposal for a Federal Authority to Enhance Speed, Scale and Access to Medical Countermeasures . HMS Task Force (with Margaret Bourdeaux and Annmarie Sasdi). May 28, 2021
" A Plan to Break the Vaccine Manufacturing Bottleneck ," Barron's , May 25, 2021 (with Tom Johnston).
" MAPGuide: A tool to help improve health-related public-private partnership agreements ." STAT , April 1, 2021 (with Julia Barnes-Weise).
" Last mile research: a conceptual map ," Global Health Action , 14:1, 2021 (with Colleen Davison et al).
" Designing Pull Funding for A COVID-19 Vaccine ," Health Affairs , July 2020 39:9, 1633-1642 (with Snyder CM, Gouglas D, Johnston T, Robinson J).
" A Covid-19 Vaccine Should Be a Public Good. Here's How to Make That Happen ," Barron's , June 24, 2020.
" Everyone Wins from Vaccine Cooperation ," Project Syndicate , May 14, 2020 (with Susan Athey and Michael Kremer).
" Setting strategic objectives for the Coalition of Epidemic Preparedness Innovations: A decision analytic approach ," Informs Journal on Applied Analytics , November 6, 2019 (with Dimitrios Gouglas, et al.)
" What Biosecurity and Cybersecurity Research have in Common ," Slate , March 17, 2017.
" Preparing for the Next Zika ," Nature Biotechnology , Issue 34, pp. 384-386, April 2016 (with Richard Hatchett).
" Vaccines Weren't Ready for Ebola. We Can Do Better ," Wired , August 27, 2015.
" How World War II Spurred Vaccine Innovation ," The Conversation , May 8, 2015.
" Medical Countermeasures and Security ," The Routledge Handbook of Health Security , (Simon Rushton and Jeremy Youde, eds.) Routledge, 2015.
" Ebola is Bad. But Flu is Worse ," Politico , Oct 7, 2014.
Long Shot: Vaccines for National Defense , (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012).
" Vaccine Innovation; Lessons from World War II ," Journal of Public Health Policy, Volume 1, Issue 27 (Spring 2006), pp. 35-57.
" Bird Flu Won't Wait ," New York Times , March 3, 2006.
Member of the Global Health Security Initiative at the Dickey Center
Faculty Affiliate of the Initiative for Global Security at the Dickey Center