FY2007 Budget Increases Spending by $112 Million
JUNE 23, 2006 – Baltimore, MD – Since 2001, the U.S. government has spent substantial resources to prepare the nation against a bioterrorist attack. For the past several years, the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has analyzed government spending on biosecurity. In an article to be published in Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, authors Clarence Lam, Crystal Franco, and Ari Schuler update the figures for 2007 and look at where the money is going.
The article analyzes the budgets for FY2007 for biodefense at the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of State. Among the findings:
“Billions for Biodefense: Federal Agency Biodefense Funding, FY2006–FY2007” by Clarence Lam, Crystal Franco, and Ari Schuler appears in the June 2006 issue of Biosecurity and Bioterrorism. The full text is available by contacting Molly D’Esopo at molly_desopo@upmc-biosecurity.org.
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The Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) works to prevent the development and use of biological weapons, to catalyze advances in science and governance that diminish the power of biological weapons as agents of mass destruction, and to lessen the human suffering that would result if prevention fails.