Texas Biomed Tapped for National ‘Dream Team’ Developing Antivirals Against Biothreats
As the coronavirus waves keep coming and cases are on the rise once again, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) ...
Tag: Capacity Building
A Treaty to Break the Pandemic Cycle: Don’t Ignore Key Lessons from the Past Two Years
When developing an initial draft of a “pandemic treaty” – a task the World Health Organization Member States have assigned ...
Design Phase Kicks Off for New $750M Wadsworth Public Health Laboratory
New Laboratory Will Boost Preparedness for Future Public Health Crises The State of New York has awarded an initial design contract to ...
Nominate Experts for National Academies’ Committee to Counter Misleading Information about Biological Threats
Inaccurate and misleading information about biological threats have become commonplace, presenting challenges to effective outbreak control, seeding distrust among affected ...
U.S. Opens Funding for New Public Health Pathogens Genomics Centers of Excellence
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced the availability of cooperative agreement funds for this fiscal year ...
In Pictures: Veterinary Civic Action Program in Niger
A Nigerien veterinarian prepares a vaccine during a Veterinary Civic Action Program (VETCAP) in Gaya, Niger, February 1, 2022. The ...
U.S. Delivers Additional Vaccines and Freezer Trucks to Bangladesh for COVID Vaccination Efforts
The U.S. Donates Another 10 Million Pfizer Vaccines to Bangladesh; U.S.-Donated Doses Now Exceed 38 Million The U.S. donated an ...
The U.S. Government Responds to False Allegations Targeted at the DoD Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
DoD's Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program, executed by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), aims to peacefully reduce biological threats ...
U.S. Plans to Expand Regional Ebola and Other Special Pathogen Treatment Centers
The U.S. Department of of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has announced a forecasted ...
Rwanda and Senegal Will Host Africa’s First COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing Plants
The lack of vaccine production capacity in African countries has been the subject of much concern and hand-wringing in the ...
Military Mobile Lab Leaders Forge Partnerships at German Biodefense Conference
The 17th Medical Biodefense Conference was held this month at the Bundeswehr Institute for Microbiology in Munich, covering topics like ...
Looking Back at the Biological Threat Reduction Program Through the Decades
This year marks three decades of collaboration spearheaded by the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program with foreign partners ...
COVID’s Crushing Impact on Public Health
Understaffed and underfunded before the pandemic, COVID-19 crisis response has swamped the workforce and crippled other services The COVID-19 pandemic ...
Public Health System Recovery and Resilience Capacity Building in Ukraine
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications from qualified U.S. or Non-U.S. non-profit or for-profit Non-Governmental ...
USDA Pandemic Response and Safety Grants for Farmers Markets, Food Producers
Small scale specialty crop producers and processors, meat processors and distributors, and farmers markets were all significantly impacted by the ...
Long Term Care Outbreak Strike Teams, Increased Laboratory Capacity Part of $2.1 Billion CDC Effort to Enhance Infection Control
The U.S. federal government, through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is investing $2.1 billion in American Rescue ...
Biothreat Detection Module Will Help Assess Capacity to Detect Agro-Terrorism
Although rare, reports exist throughout history of non-state actors using or threatening to use biological agents against animals or agriculture. ...
Africa Malaria Task Force Reconvenes to Share Resources, Strategies and Expertise
A two-day virtual training event was held June 29-30, 2021, in support of Africa Malaria Task Force (AMTF) in Naples, ...
NBACC: Past Bioagent Research Informs Current and Future Pandemic Response
Like many U.S. research and development agencies, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) was forced to shift ...
VIDO Gains Support Towards Becoming Canadian Centre for Pandemic Research
The Government of Saskatchewan has committed $15 million to support the University of Saskatchewan’s (USask) Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization’s ...
