Adin Richards

Adin Richards is a PhD candidate in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where his research focuses on health security and biosecurity. He joined Open Philanthropy in June 2023 as a part-time Research Analyst on the Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness team, where he investigates built environment interventions, PPE, medical countermeasures, and biodefense technologies to inform grant-making strategy. Prior to this, he was a Biosecurity Fellow at the Institute for Progress (IFP), researching how U.S. policy can increase global food system resilience and reduce vulnerability to agricultural production shocks. He holds a B.A. in Geology-Biology and a B.A. in Public Health from Brown University. Earlier in his career, he received a Long-Term Future Fund grant (2021) to conduct part-time research at ALLFED on how the US could maintain food supplies during extreme pandemics and civilizational disruptions, supervised by ALLFED researcher Mike Hinge.

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