Health Security

Cruise ship passengers arrive at National Quarantine Unit 

The Nebraska Biocontainment Unit has been activated, as one of the U.S. citizens who were aboard a cruise ship associated with a hantavirus outbreak tested positive. 

May 11, 2026

Shuttles carrying the MV Hondius passengers en route to the National Quarantine Unit at UNMC.

Nebraska Medicine/UNMC asked to monitor U.S. citizens from cruise ship hantavirus outbreak

The National Quarantine Unit, located at UNMC, is the only federally funded quarantine unit in the United States.

May 10, 2026

UNMC sign in front of the Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education, with the 42nd Street skywalk and Wittson Hall behind.

Regents approve air transport training facility at UNMC

The facility would extend programs offered by the US Air Force’s C-STARS Omaha Unit stationed at UNMC.

Apr 27, 2026

Image rendering of the IDAT facility. Courtesy Leo A Daly.

UNMC achievements, April 10, 2026

Recent achievements for Lauren Sauer, PhD, Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway, PhD, Chandra Are, MBBS, Tammy Kielian, PhD, and Paul Weishapl.

Apr 10, 2026

Lauren Sauer, PhD

UNMC joins U.S. emergency preparedness, response network

Ten regional partners will work collaboratively to share knowledge, coordinate action and strengthen systems for future emergencies.

Apr 3, 2026

Angie Vasa, Project ECHO program director for UNMC

Global Center for Health Security releases annual report

The 2025 report emphasizes the center’s preparedness and response, international engagement and military collaboration.

Mar 25, 2026

John Lowe, PhD, director of the Global Center for Health Security

Experts from UNMC, Egypt lead biosafety and security workshop

The three-day event in Cairo brought together researchers and scientists for an intensive training session.

Mar 20, 2026

UNMC researchers, in collaboration with experts from Egypt, led a biosafety and security training workshop in Cairo.

NU’s NSRI awarded $500 million research contract

The contract continues NSRI and USSTRATCOM’s partnership for deterrence and defense R&D.

Mar 18, 2026

Signage and the Durham Research Center towers as seen from the campus entrance at Saddle Creek Road and Emile Street. Photos from my last photo stroll across campus on Tuesday, July 23, 2024.

Dr. Khan joins polio eradication efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Public Health Dean Ali S. Khan, MD, MPH, will serve on an advisory group convened by the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean Region.

Feb 4, 2026

Ali S. Khan, MD, MPH, dean of the UNMC College of Public Health

Sen. Fischer tours biocontainment transports at UNMC

U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer visited UNMC on Nov. 12 to get an up-close look at the systems housed at the med center.

Jan 29, 2026

At her UNMC visit in November, U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer was accompanied by Col. Elizabeth Schnaubelt, MD, director of C-STARS Omaha.