Sec. 2512. Briefing on emerging infectious disease and pandemics
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Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall provide to the appropriate congressional committees a briefing on the anticipated geopolitical effects of emerging infectious disease (including deliberate, accidental, and naturally occurring infectious disease threats) and pandemics, and their implications on the national security of the United States. The briefing under subsection
(a)shall assess— the economic, social, political, and security risks, costs, and impacts of emerging infectious diseases on the United States and the international political and economic system; the economic, social, political, and security risks, costs, and impacts of a major transnational pandemic on the United States and the international political and economic system; and contributing trends and factor to the matters assessed under paragraphs
(1)and (2). In examining the risks, costs, and impacts of emerging infectious disease and a possible transnational pandemic under subsection (b), the Director of National Intelligence shall also examine in the briefing under subsection
(a)the response capacity within affected countries and the international system. In considering response capacity, the Director shall include— the ability of affected nations to effectively detect and manage emerging infectious diseases and a possible transnational pandemic; the role and capacity of international organizations and nongovernmental organizations to respond to emerging infectious disease and a possible pandemic, and their ability to coordinate with affected and donor nations; and the effectiveness of current international frameworks, agreements, and health systems to respond to emerging infectious diseases and a possible transnational pandemic. The briefing under subsection
(a)may be classified. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional intelligence committees; the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.