Danyale Kellogg

Danyale C. Kellogg is a Biodefense PhD student specializing in International Security at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. Her research aims to understand how the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) internal workings inhibit effective responses to infectious disease outbreaks and what threats this poses to international security. She is also currently a Graduate Research Assistant, Managing Editor of the Pandora Report, a Presidential Scholar, Druckman Fellow, and a Student Fellow with the Center for Security Policy Studies. While at Mason, she has completed George Washington University’s Institute for Korean Studies’ North Korea Program, spent time doing infectious disease surveillance work in Kenya, and completed the Medical Management of Chemical and Biological Casualties course offered by the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense.

She previously earned a Master of International Affairs (MIA) on the National Security track with concentrations in China Studies and Pandemics and Biosecurity from the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University in 2021. She also earned a Global Health Graduate Certificate from the Texas A&M School of Public Health. Her MIA capstone research was with US Indo-Pacific Command’s China Strategic Focus Group and used psycho-biographic and network analysis techniques to better understand the fifth generation of CCP Leadership and identify potential indicators of future generations. Her public health research focused on the Republic of Korea’s preparedness for a biological weapons attack. She also earned a BA in History, Paideia with Distinction, with minors in International Studies and German from Southwestern University in 2019. Her senior capstone research focused on US strategic and intelligence failures pertaining to the PRC’s intervention in the Korean War. She has studied and researched at Ewha Womans University and Korea University in Seoul, South Korea, and Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile.

Danyale was previously a Defense Policy Junior Fellow with the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), Young Professionals in Foreign Policy’s Global Health Fellow, and a Pacific Forum Young Leader. She has internship experience in the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security, among other organizations. She was also previously a Women in Defense Scholar with NDIA, a Hatton W. Sumners Foundation Scholar, and a Patty Puig and Joseph Mueller Fellow at Texas A&M. She was awarded the Bush School’s Medal of Excellence and Dean’s Leadership Certificate, the Texas A&M School of Public Health’s Public Health Scholar Award-Gold, Southwestern University’s Overall Leader Award, and the Cooperative Education and Internship Association’s 2019 Intern Student Achievement Award. She has published in National Defense, Global Security Review, and Geopolitical Monitor and is a Girl Security mentor.