Biosecurity and Bioterrorism Special Feature

Biosecurity Memos to the Obama Administration

On inauguration day, President Obama posted his administration’s biosecurity priorities on the agenda page of the White House website. In the following memos, the Center for Biosecurity offers its views on an array of biosecurity challenges confronting the new Administration.
        
The first memo, by Tara O'Toole and Tom Inglesby, offers recommendations regarding strategic priorities for U.S. biosecurity. The memos that follow, by the Center's senior staff and analysts, provide program recommendations in key areas: the biosecurity budget, prevention, biosurveillance, medical preparedness, public health preparedness, community engagement, and medical countermeasure development and manufacturing. These memos are intended to be of strategic and pragmatic value for the incoming officials in the Obama Administration who have responsibility for biosecurity in the White House and in the federal agencies.

• Strategic Priorities for U.S. Biosecurity by Tara O’Toole and Thomas Inglesby

• Funding Biodefense by Crystal Franco

• Preventing the Development and Use of Biological Weapons by Gigi Kwik Gronvall

• Preparing the Healthcare System for Catastrophic Emergencies by Brooke Courtney, Eric Toner, and Richard Waldhorn

• Preserving Gains from Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative Agreements by Jennifer B. Nuzzo, Michael Mair, and Crystal Franco

• Developing a National Biosurveillance Program by Jennifer B. Nuzzo

• Expanding the Public’s Role in Health Emergency Policy by Monica Schoch-Spana, Brooke Courtney, and Ann Norwood

• Developing Medical Countermeasures for Biodefense by Bradley T. Smith, Michael Mair, Gigi Kwik Gronvall, and Jason Matheny
     

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