Protecting Americans from biological threats

About the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security III

Signatories IV

Acknowledgments VII

Executive Summary 1

The United States Must Answer the Rising Threat 4

1. Modernize Surveillance 7

2. Ensure Biosafety and Biosecurity to Prevent Bioincidents 8

3. Reverse the Decline of the Biodefense Enterprise 10

4. Strengthen Response and Recovery 12

To Act or Not to Act 15

About the Authors 17

Additional References 19

Endnotes 21