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    National Biodefense Strategy
    National Biodefense Strategy
    National Biodefense Strategy
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    National Biodefense Strategy

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    The "National Biodefense Strategy" anthology offers a profound exploration of modern biodefense mechanisms, underscoring critical themes like public health security, pathogen preparedness, and response coordination. This collection masterfully spans a gamut of directives, policy outlines, and strategic initiatives, reflecting a mosaic of literary forms from technical memoranda to insightful summaries. Together, these diverse works encapsulate the U.S. Government's comprehensive approach to biodefense, capturing the gravity and intricacies of safeguarding national health. Standout segments include strategic frameworks that interpret current biodefense challenges through innovative lenses, ensuring that such preparedness measures remain robust and effective. The distinguished contributors to this anthology, helmed by the White House and various government entities, bring a wealth of expertise and insight from disciplines ranging from epidemiology to national security. Embodying the spirit of recent governmental and scientific innovations, the authors offer an indispensable perspective aligned with contemporary movements toward integrated health security. This confluence of voices not only addresses traditional biological threats but also emanates a transformative vision for collective global vigilance, fortifying the anthology's scholarly impact. Readers are invited to engage with the "National Biodefense Strategy" as a pivotal resource, presenting an unparalleled opportunity to navigate through intricate policy frameworks and foresight strategies. As the intersection of multiple expertise and strategies, this anthology offers invaluable education and a novel discourse on biodefense. Enabling a profound understanding through its eclectic mix of voices and perspectives, this collection serves as an indispensable guide to both practitioners and scholars committed to fortifying resilience against biological threats.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSharp Ink
    Release dateApr 3, 2020
    ISBN9788028218966
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      National Biodefense Strategy - U.S. Government

      Foreword

      Table of Contents

      It is a vital interest of the United States to manage the risk of biological incidents. In today’s interconnected world, biological incidents have the potential to cost thousands of American lives, cause significant anxiety, and greatly impact travel and trade.

      Biological threats—whether naturally occurring, accidental, or deliberate in origin—are among the most serious threats facing the United States and the international community. Outbreaks of disease can cause catastrophic harm to the United States. They can cause death, sicken, and disable on a massive scale, and they can also inflict psychological trauma and economic and social disruption. Natural or accidental outbreaks, as well as deliberate attacks, can originate in one country and spread to many others, with potentially far-reaching international consequences. Advances in science promise better and faster cures, economic advances, a cleaner environment, and improved quality of life, but they also bring new security risks. In this rapidly changing landscape, the United States must be prepared to manage the risks posed by natural outbreaks of disease, accidents with high consequence pathogens, or adversaries who wish to do harm with biological agents.

      Health security means taking care of the American people in the face of biological threats to our homeland and to our interests abroad. The significant infectious disease outbreaks of recent decades, including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), pandemic influenza, Ebola virus disease, and Zika virus disease, have revealed the extent to which individual countries and international communities need to improve their preparedness and biosurveillance systems to detect and respond to the next health crisis. The health of the American people depends on our ability to stem infectious disease outbreaks at their source, wherever and however they occur. America’s biodefense enterprise needs to be nimble enough to address emerging infectious disease threats, the risks associated with the accelerating pace of biotechnology, and threats posed by terrorist groups or adversaries seeking to use biological weapons.

      The National Biodefense Strategy is aligned with the 2018 National Security Strategy of the United States. Pillar One of the 2018 National Security Strategy explicitly calls for protecting the American people, the homeland, and the American way of life. One component of this goal is achieved by detecting and containing biothreats at their source, supporting and promoting the responsible conduct of biomedical innovation, and improving emergency response. Pillar Two calls for promoting] American prosperity, which increasingly will depend on a vibrant life sciences and biotechnology enterprise.

      This National Biodefense Strategy highlights the President’s commitment to protect the American people and our way of life, laying out a clear pathway and set of objectives to effectively counter threats from naturally occurring, accidental, and deliberate biological events. It is broader than a Federal Government strategy. It is a call to action for state, local, territorial, and tribal (SLTT) entities, other governments, practitioners, physicians, scientists, educators, and industry.

      Vision

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      The United States actively and effectively prevents, prepares for, responds to, recovers from, and mitigates risk from natural, accidental, or deliberate biological threats.

      Purpose

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      This National Biodefense Strategy brings together and puts in place for the first time, a single coordinated effort to orchestrate the full range of activity that is carried out across the United States Government to protect the American people from biological threats. With National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM)-14, this strategy explains how the United States Government will manage its activities more effectively to assess, prevent, detect, prepare for, respond to, and recover from biological threats,

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