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Title:

Biosecurity Memos to the Obama Administration

Authors:

Center Staff

Date posted:

March 27, 2009

Publication type:

Commentary

Publication:

Biosecur Bioterror 2009;7(1):25-43

Publisher:

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

DOI:

10.1089/bsp.2009.1001

See also:

All memos available on publisher's site; see links to individual memos below.

Introduction:

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, Tara O’Toole and Thomas Inglesby
Funding Biodefense, Crystal Franco
Preventing the Development and Use of Biological Weapons, Gigi Kwik Gronvall
Preparing the Healthcare System for Catastrophic Emergencies, Brooke Courtney, Eric Toner, and Richard Waldhorn
Preserving Gains from Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative Agreements, Jennifer B. Nuzzo, Michael Mair, and Crystal Franco
Developing a National Biosurveillance Program, Jennifer B. Nuzzo
Expanding the Public’s Role in Health Emergency Policy, Monica Schoch-Spana, Brooke Courtney, and Ann Norwood
Developing Medical Countermeasures for Biodefense, Bradley T. Smith, Michael Mair, Gigi Kwik Gronvall, and Jason Matheny