Biodefense countermeasures: the impact of Title IV of the US Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act

The 2006 US Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act gave the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) new authority to fund the development and procurement of medical countermeasures against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. The legislation builds on the authorit...

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Autor principal: Gronvall, GK
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CoAction Publishing 2008
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Policy Reviews
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3167589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22460212
http://dx.doi.org/10.3134/ehtj.08.003
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description The 2006 US Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act gave the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) new authority to fund the development and procurement of medical countermeasures against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. The legislation builds on the authority the HHS gained in 2004 under Project BioShield, which established a fund to procure medical countermeasures. This article reviews the new HHS authorities and the improvements on BioShield, and it describes some of the challenges HHS will face in exercising the new authorities to fund the development and procurement of medical countermeasures against CBRN threats.
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spelling pubmed-31675892011-09-07 Biodefense countermeasures: the impact of Title IV of the US Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act Gronvall, GK Emerg Health Threats J Policy Reviews The 2006 US Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act gave the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) new authority to fund the development and procurement of medical countermeasures against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. The legislation builds on the authority the HHS gained in 2004 under Project BioShield, which established a fund to procure medical countermeasures. This article reviews the new HHS authorities and the improvements on BioShield, and it describes some of the challenges HHS will face in exercising the new authorities to fund the development and procurement of medical countermeasures against CBRN threats. CoAction Publishing 2008-02-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3167589/ /pubmed/22460212 http://dx.doi.org/10.3134/ehtj.08.003 Text en © 2008 GK Gronvall; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Biodefense countermeasures: the impact of Title IV of the US Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3167589/
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