Kendall Hoyt, PhD, is 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 is the Dartmouth faculty director for the Pandemic Security Project at the Dickey Center for International Understanding and leads the vaccine task force for the US Covid Commission Planning Group. She 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.