Global Biodefense February 7, 2020 According to a top biosecurity expert in the US over the past decade and a half, since the SARS outbreak in the early 2000s, it’s clear that China has built stronger public health capacity. What this outbreak is making clear is that there is no country, including the United States, that is fully prepared for a high consequence outbreak. This outbreak is obviously a bad situation and we don’t know which direction it is going to go yet. But we do know that we don’t have the capability to detect, isolate, and ultimately stop a […]
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Roadmap for Biosecurity and Biodefense Policy in the United States [2018]
Global Biodefense July 15, 2018 The report presents a roadmap for implementing biosecurity and biodefense policy to leverage the capabilities of science and technology advances and minimize security risks. Supporting the conclusions and suggestions in the Roadmap are detailed analyses of the overall system of U.S. biosecurity and biodefense policy, existing methodologies for evaluating successful implementation of policies, and historical case studies with which to develop an analytic framework for assessing potential opportunity and costs of biosecurity policy requirements. The study was supported by the U.S. Air Force Academy and Defense Threat Reduction Agency under their Project on Advanced Systems […]