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Appendix F: Selected U.S. Government Departments and Agencies with Relevant Programs
Appendix F: Selected U.S. Government Departments and Agencies with Relevant Programs
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Training: training scientists, laboratory managers, and policy makers on surveillance, diagnostics, biosafety, and pathogen security to raise awareness and to promote effective laboratory practices 3. Surveillance and diagnostics: assisting with, designing, and implementing surveillance and molecular diagnostic systems that strengthen infectious disease detection and response 4.
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gov/t/isn/16189.htm) Bureau of Verification, Compliance, and Implementation The bureau's core missions are to ensure that appropriate verification requirements and capabilities are fully considered and properly integrated throughout the development, negotiation, and implementation of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements and commitments and to ensure that other countries' compliance is carefully watched, rigorously assessed, appropriately reported, and resolutely enforced.
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The Bureau of Global Health works to improve global health, including child, maternal, and reproductive health, and to reduce abortion and disease, especially HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. It supports field health programs, advances research and innovation in selected areas relevant to overall agency health objectives, and transfers new technologies to the field through its own staff work, coordination with other donors, and a portfolio of grants and contracts with an annual budget in excess of $1.6 billion.
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Its programs include conducting risk, threat, and vulnerability assessments; providing technical assistance to safely transport dangerous biological agents; conducting training; assisting in reviewing and drafting biosafety, biosecurity, and biocontainment procedures; and conducting assessments to understand biological threats and risks. (www.biosecurity.
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The two other programs provide training in applied epidemiology and public health through a competency-based curriculum supporting laboratory-based surveillance and outbreak response and strengthened public health management capacity. The GDD Program is designed to develop and strengthen global health capacity to identify and respond to emerging infections and bioterrorist threats around the world.
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experts to develop joint projects and apply for support and cooperation in areas of research and development that address urgent public health concerns in the FSU. This work will help develop and expand commercial discovery and production of drugs, vaccines, biological test kits, and other quality products and technologies designed to meet current public health needs in the region.
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Also, FAS helps nations understand and prepare for meeting World Trade Organization requirements. (www.fas.usda.gov/)
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The International Service develops and implements programs that identify health threats outside U.S. borders to reduce those threats at the source. This activity includes training and technology transfer to help developing countries build their animal and plant health infrastructures, thereby helping to reduce the likelihood of undetected threat pathways into the United States.
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