Avril Haines - Brennan's CIA#2 was a participant in 2019's Event 201 covid exercise

Event 201 was a high-level pandemic tabletop exercise (often described as a "desktop simulation") held on October 18, 2019, in New York City. It was hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.The exercise involved 15 players—prominent leaders from global business, government, and public health—who actively participated by role-playing as high-level decision-makers responding to a fictional severe coronavirus pandemic scenario. They discussed policy, economic, and response challenges in facilitated segments.Here is the full list of the 15 players, based on official sources from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (with titles and affiliations as listed there; some titles reflect their roles at the time or former positions):

Latoya D. Abbott — Senior Director of Global Occupational Health Services, Marriott International.
Sofia Borges — Senior Vice President and Head of the New York office, UN Foundation.
Brad Connett — President of Henry Schein's U.S. Medical Group, Henry Schein, Inc.
Chris Elias — President of the Global Development Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Timothy Grant Evans — Inaugural Director and Associate Dean of the School of Population and Global Health, McGill University (previously Senior Director of the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, World Bank Group).
George Fu Gao — Director-General, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Professor in the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Avril Haines — Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University; Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (previously Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor; former Deputy Director of the CIA).
Jane Halton — Member of various boards including ANZ Bank and the US Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (previously Secretary of the Department of Finance and Secretary of the Department of Health and Ageing, Australia).
Matthew J. Harrington — Global Chief Operating Officer, Edelman.
Martin Knuchel — Senior Director and Head of Crisis, Emergency & Business Continuity Management, Lufthansa Group Airlines.
Eduardo Martinez — President of the UPS Foundation and UPS Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer.
Stephen C. Redd — Deputy Director for Public Health Service and Implementation Science, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Hasti Taghi — Chief of Staff at a major media company, leading strategic initiatives (previously Vice President & Executive Advisor, NBCUniversal; involved in partnerships with the World Economic Forum).
Lavan Thiru — Chief Representative in the New York Representative Office, Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Adrian Thomas — Vice President Global Public Health, Johnson & Johnson.

(Note: Some early announcements listed slightly varying titles or names like "Stan Bergman" for Henry Schein or "Paul Stoffels" for Johnson & Johnson, but the official Johns Hopkins site confirms the above as the final players. The exercise focused on these 15 as the core participants simulating responses.)An additional invitation-only audience of nearly 130 people (scientists, researchers, international leaders, etc.) observed in person, and the event was livestreamed publicly (though player discussions were moderated). The audience and observers were not active participants/players in the simulation itself.For the most authoritative details, including videos and scenario materials, refer to the official page: centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201.

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