News HighlightNew Interactive Tracker to Provide Real-Time Updates on Federal Biodefense Actions
In an effort to better track action taken by the federal government to strengthen the Nation’s defense against biological threats, the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense today launched its new interactive recommendations tracker. Found on the Commission’s website, https://biodefensecommission.org/recommendation-status, the tracker comes on the heels of a new Commission analysis called Biodefense in Crisis, which found the United States remains at catastrophic biological risk.
More15 April, 2021
Commission Announces New Position to Lead Biodefense Policy and Research Efforts.
The Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense is seeking a Director of Policy and Research to develop and supervise the Commission’s biodefense policy and research agendas. The Commission, established in 2014, assesses the state of U.S. biodefense efforts and recommends changes to U.S. policy and law to strengthen national biodefense while optimizing resource investments. The Commissioners, all former high-ranking government officials, and the staff of four have conducted more than 20 public meetings and produced six reports, including the seminal A National Blueprint for Biodefense: Leadership and Major Reform Needed to Optimize Efforts. The pandemic of 2020 has shined a spotlight on the Commission’s work and this new Director of Policy and Research joins at an exciting time of high-intensity focus and rapid-growth. If you are interested, please send your resume to admin@biodefensecommission.org
At this March 2021 meeting, the Commission examined first responder needs to address biological threats. More details on this meeting can be found here.
At this March 2021 meeting, the Commission examined first responder needs to address biological threats. More details on this meeting can be found here.
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June 21, 2021
Cyberbiosecurity Threats Headline Next Meeting of Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense
The Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense will premiere a virtual meeting on Tuesday, June 22, to provide the Commission with a better understanding of cyberbiosecurity threats and vulnerabilities. The meeting, Biologia et Machina: Cyberbiosecurity for Today’s Hybrid Evolution, will build on the Commission’s earlier work to explore opportunities and solutions to address today’s threats, and the role of the federal government in securing the future. The Commission believes it is imperative to continually evaluate cyberbio threats and vulnerabilities to keep pace with these two domains as their convergence accelerates.
May 28, 2021
Tom Daschle, Tom Ridge: Pipeline hack reveals America’s vulnerability to biological attack
The effects of the ransomware attack that shut down the Colonial Pipeline and disrupted East Coast gasoline supplies have eased. But as frustrating as that cyberattack was to consumers and business operators, consider this: Much worse things could damage critical infrastructure.
May 27, 2021
An enemy could do terrible damage to our cyber infrastructure in the future: Former U.S. senator
Joseph Lieberman, former U.S. senator and current co-chair of the U.S. Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense, joins BNN Bloomberg's Amanda Lang to talk about the vulnerabilities that he says the Colonial Pipeline has exposed about critical infrastructure. He also talks about the political climate around regulating banks, big tech and other parts of the U.S. economy and what he hopes to see from government.
April 22, 2021
Fixing the public health system for the next pandemic
Non-partisan organizations, such as APHA, the Bipartisan Commission Biodefense, Trust for America’s Health and the National Academies of Medicine are all pushing Congress to pass legislation like this bill introduced by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) that would more provide $4.5 billion to build and maintain funding of the public health system.
April 19, 2021
Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense launches interactive tracker of federal biodefense actions
To provide real-time updates on federal actions that could help defend against biological threats, the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense has created an interactive recommendations tracker of completed, in-progress, and items of inaction.
April 15, 2021
New Interactive Tracker to Provide Real-Time Updates on Federal Biodefense Actions
In an effort to better track action taken by the federal government to strengthen the Nation’s defense against biological threats, the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense today launched its new interactive recommendations tracker. Found on the Commission’s website, https://biodefensecommission.org/recommendation-status, the tracker comes on the heels of a new Commission analysis called Biodefense in Crisis, which found the United States remains at catastrophic biological risk.
