Policy Outlook: The Global War on Fentanyl

Fentanyl has become one of the deadliest public health crises of our time. In his new book Fentanyl: Fighting the Mass Poisoning of America and the Cartel Behind It, former White House official Jake Braun—now executive director of Harris’s Cyber Policy Initiative—details the federal government’s strategy to save lives and disrupt the networks behind the epidemic.

 In partnership with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Harris welcomes Braun and former White House official Katie Tobin, a national security expert and lecturer at Harris, for a conversation about the U.S. government’s evolving counter-fentanyl strategy, which spanned both the Biden and Trump administrations and helped drive overdose deaths down by more than a third.

 The discussion, led by Cécile Shea, a nonresident senior fellow on security and diplomacy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, will explore how global supply chains, cartels, and geopolitics collide in the fentanyl trade—and what this unprecedented challenge reveals about the intersection of public health, security, and modern policymaking.

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