News highlights on health security threats and countermeasures curated by Global Biodefense This week’s selections include a global survey of gain-of-function research; funding of an mRNA mpox vaccine; Nipah virus outbreak in India; field detection of threat agents with acoustic…

Healthcare Workers Express Outrage at Flawed CDC Mask Guidance

Setting National Standards for Critical and Emerging Biotechnology

The Painful Pandemic Lessons Facing the New CDC Director

Policy + Initiatives

Nobody is Checking for Violations of the Biological Weapons Convention

CDC Awards $3 Billion in Wide-Reaching Campaign to Boost Vaccination Uptake

Reimagining US Public Health with Robust Application of Systems Engineering

ASM Expresses Support for the Global Health Security Act of 2021

CONVINCE USA Aims to Address Public Concerns About COVID-19 Vaccine

Lawmakers Press HSS for Information on Remdesivir Pricing Negotiations with Gilead

NASEM Launches Pandemic Response Strategic Science Initiative

DOE Providing Funding and Expertise for Researchers to Support COVID-19 Projects

One Health Day 2020 – Disease Prevention, Public Health and Global Security in Action

Stopping the Public Health Infodemic: Wikipedia and W.H.O. Join Forces

Smithfield Outbreak: CDC Director Gives Contradictory Testimony on White House Interference

Australia Will Have Its Own Centre for Disease Control, Labor Party Vows

Support the Development of the WHO Fungal Priority Pathogens List

Experts Sought for Committee on Quantum Science Applications for Biotechnology

Why It Matters That the U.S. Is Not Supporting COVAX

New York Enacts Emergency Testing Order to Capture Deaths Related to COVID-19 or Influenza

Lessons From Hydroxychloroquine: Improving FDA’s Authorization and Approval Process

NIAID Establishes New Global Network to Focus on Spillover Potential of Emerging Diseases

Politics Slows Flow of US Pandemic Relief Funds to Public Health Agencies

Relief Funds Being Used to Pay Hospital Shareholders at the Expense of Frontline Health Care Workers

Biodefense Headlines – 19 September 2023

OneLab Summit 2023

Tunneling Nanotubes and Intracellular Protrusions Workshop

Tissue, Matrix, and Pathobiology: Joint Meeting of ASMB, HCS, and ASIP

APHA 2023 Annual Meeting & Expo