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Appendix C: U.S. and International Agencies and Organizations Engaged in Global Health Security
Pages 167-178

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From page 167...
... , an Entomology department dedicated to the study of disease vectors, and a retrovirology department that has been organized to execute vaccine studies for the HIV/AIDS virus. A recently initiated program to monitor new, emerging disease threats as a part of a Global Emerging Diseases Surveillance system is now underway.
From page 168...
... USDA provides leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, and related issues based on public policy, the best available science, and effective management. Its vision is to provide economic opportunity through innovation, helping rural America to thrive; to promote agriculture production that better nourishes Americans while also helping feed others throughout the world; and to preserve the United States' natural resources through conservation, restored forests, improved watersheds, and healthy private working lands.
From page 169...
... BEP was first funded in FY 2006 and is part of the Nonproliferation, AntiTerrorism, Demining and Related Programs Global Threat Reduction programs account managed and implemented by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (ISN/CTR)
From page 170...
... It assists developing countries mainly in the fields of maternal and child health, infectious disease control, and health system strengthening in order to protect the people from life-threatening diseases. It dispatches experts to technical cooperation projects in developing countries, trains health personnel domestically and abroad, and conducts health research; and in addition, it dispatches medical relief teams in many parts of the world in response to natural disasters and epidemics of communicable diseases.
From page 171...
... National Institute of Health, Italy The institute plans, implements, and evaluates training activities designed to address the needs of the National Health Service. The topics addressed include health service management and evaluation, epidemiology and biostatistics, training methods, laboratory techniques, diseases control and priority public health issues, and health promotion.
From page 172...
... (NTI, 2020a) Navy Medical Research and Development Laboratories The Navy's Medical Research and Development Laboratories are engaged in a broad spectrum of activity from basic science in the laboratory to field studies at sites in remote areas of the world to operational environments.
From page 173...
... BWC ISU provides: administrative support and assistance; national implementation support and assistance; support and assistance for confidence-building measures; support and assistance for obtaining universality; administers the database for assistance requests and offers and facilitates associated exchanges of information; and supports States Parties' efforts to implement the decisions and recommendations of the review conference.
From page 174...
... GHSA is a group of countries, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and private sector companies that have come together to advance a world safe and secure from infectious disease threats. Under GHSA, nations from all over the world make new, concrete commitments, and elevate global health security as a national leaders-level priority.
From page 175...
... IPPC is one of the "Three Sisters" recognized by the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Agreement, along with the Codex Alimentarius Commission for food safety standards, and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)
From page 176...
... 1540 Committee Resolution 1540 (2004) imposes binding obligations on all States to adopt legislation to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, and their means of delivery, and establish appropriate domestic controls over related materials to prevent their illicit trafficking.
From page 177...
... APPENDIX C 177 regional organizations, and has regional and sub-regional offices on every continent (OIE, 2020a)


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