Jessica A. Bell

Senior Program Officer- Global Biological Policy and Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)

Jessica A. Bell is a senior program officer for global biological policy and programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), a non-profit global security engagement organization. She leads efforts to strengthen global health such as the Global Health Security Index, which is the first comprehensive assessment and benchmarking of health security across 195 countries. Ms. Bell is also responsible for managing COVID-Local.org, an online resource to support local decision leaders in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Ms. Bell has served as a senior advisor to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program as well as the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, where she helped to shape CTR's strategic messaging, engage key stakeholders across the nuclear and biological communities, and coordinate congressional requirements. 

She holds an M.S. in Biohazardous Threat Agents and Emerging Infectious Diseases from Georgetown University and a B.S. in Forensic Biology from West Virginia University.