Senior Director, Global Biological Policy and Programs
Rachel Staley Grant serves as senior director for NTI’s Global Biological Policy and Programs team (NTI | bio). In this role, she helps manage the Global Health Security Index and affiliated projects, and she supports NTI | bio’s congressional outreach and advocacy work.
Staley Grant joined NTI in 2016 and served on the Communications team, most recently as deputy vice president. During her time on the Communications team, she provided strategic communications support for several NTI programs and projects, including the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification, the Global Health Security Index, and the International Biosecurity and Biosafety Initiative for Science (IBBIS).
Staley Grant was on assignment to the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services between February 2024 – April 2025. In her capacity at ARPA-H, she helped scale the agency’s inaugural Division of International Affairs. Previously, Staley Grant managed programs and operations for the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) in London.
Staley Grant holds an MA in Non-Proliferation and International Security from King’s College London and a BA International Affairs and Anthropology from Northeastern University. She also earned a Graduate Diploma in Management through the University of London International Programmes in conjunction with the London School of Economics.
Amid a combination of economic slowdown, reductions in official development assistance, rising biological threats, and climate change’s disproportionate impact on Africa, leaders and experts call for data-driven tools to guide strategic health security investments.
Global health security —the ability to protect against the negative impacts of disease outbreaks — is too important to be left solely to the public sector. Industry has a vital interest in helping countries better prepare for future epidemics and pandemics.
NTI’s Mary Fulham and Rachel Staley Grant interviewed Tina Cordova about her advocacy work—including recent breakthroughs in Congress—and her take on the recent attention that Oppenheimer has brought to the history of nuclear weapons in New Mexico.
Improving epidemic and pandemic preparedness and strengthening biosecurity in Africa.
Past Project Safeguarding modern bioscience and biotechnology so it can advance and flourish safely and responsibly
Past Project To foster greater understanding of the complex issues around weapons of mass destruction and disruption, NTI has continuously invested in the development of educational content for professors and students.
An assessment and benchmarking of health security and related capabilities across 195 countries.
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