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The purpose of the National Strategy to Support Microbial Forensic Research is to guide and focus the research efforts of the US Government to advance the discipline of microbial forensics and provide the nation with the most scientifically sound and statistically defensible capability to provide scientific data to support attribution investigations of a potential or  Read More »

“The process of environmental decontamination is a key step in a successful response to a large-scale attack involving a biological agent.” This article identifies gaps in decontamination policy and technical practice at the federal level and provides practical recommendations that will better enable the U.S. to undertake a biological decontamination response.

The Center for Biosecurity of UPMC, under contract to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) through The Tauri Group, undertook a project entitled “International Disease Surveillance: United States Government Goals and Paths Forward.” This project focused on overarching issues related to USG interests in improving international surveillance for infectious diseases. The project also sought to  Read More »

UPMC Center for Biosecurity’s Conference Report on The State of Biopreparedness: Lessons from Leaders, Proposals for Progress summarizes the day’s discussions of successes in biopreparedness to date, lessons learned, and next steps in preparing the U.S. for a biological attack or catastrophic epidemic. Speakers included HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Senator Bob Graham, and other distinguished  Read More »