Sec. 103. Global health security coordination
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There is established within the Department of State a Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Advance Global Health Security and Diplomacy overseas, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Coordinator is authorized to— operate internationally to carry out the purposes of this Act; transfer and allocate United States foreign assistance resources for global health security to the relevant Federal departments and agencies, in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget, the United States Agency for International Development, and the Department of State Office of Foreign Assistance Resources; and utilize open and streamlined solicitations to allow for the participation of a wide range of implementing partners through the most appropriate procurement mechanisms, which may include grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other instruments as necessary and appropriate.
The Coordinator shall have primary responsibility for the coordination, management, and oversight of United States diplomatic efforts and foreign assistance resources to advance the relevant elements of the United States Global Health Security Strategy under section 102 and the duties described under subsection (f)(2), including the international programs, projects, and activities of the United States Government relating to the Global Health Security Agenda and the Trust Fund for Global Health Security established under title II, including— ensuring effective program coordination and implementation by the relevant Federal departments and agencies, including by— managing the budget and planning of United States foreign assistance resources authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available to carry out the purposes of chapters 1 and 10 of part I and chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) relating to infectious disease prevention, detection, mitigation, and response, including efforts to enable partner countries to strengthen and sustain resilient health systems and supply chains; formulating, issuing, and updating related program guidance; establishing unified auditing, monitoring, and evaluation plans; aligning resources and implementation plans under the strategy with the relevant Federal departments and agencies with the greatest expertise, technical capabilities, comparative advantage, and potential for success; working with and leveraging the expertise and activities of the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, the President’s Malaria Coordinator, and similar or successor entities implementing United States global health assistance overseas; and avoiding duplication of effort and working to resolve policy, program, and funding disputes among the relevant Federal departments and agencies; leading diplomatic efforts to address current and emerging threats to global health security; ensuring effective representation of the United States in relevant international forums, including at the World Health Assembly and meetings of the Global Health Security Agenda, in coordination with the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, as necessary and appropriate; promoting greater donor and partner country investment in building more resilient health systems and supply chains, including through representation and participation in a multilateral trust fund for global health security, consistent with title II; working to enhance coordination with and transparency among partner countries and key stakeholders, including the private sector; and regularly updating the appropriate congressional committees.
This section shall not apply to funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available to carry out the purposes of chapters 1 and 10 of part I and chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) relating to global health that are— apportioned directly to the Department of State to carry out programs authorized pursuant to the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 ( Public Law 108–25 ); or apportioned directly to the United States Agency for International Development to carry out programs that are not directly related to new or emerging infectious disease threats.
The Coordinator should be supported by a deputy, who should be an employee of the United States Agency for International Development serving in a career or noncareer position in the Senior Executive Service or at the level of a Deputy Assistant Administrator or higher, who serves concurrently as the deputy and performs the functions ascribed to the agency by section 3(b) of Executive Order 13747 of November 4, 2016. It is the sense of Congress that— Executive Order 13474 of November 4, 2016, and the United States Global Health Security Strategy, delivered to Congress on May 9, 2019, set out leadership and interagency coordinating roles for the National Security Council relating to global health security and the Global Health Security Agenda; the Coordinator should perform the functions in Executive Order 13747 ascribed to the Department of State in section 3(b) of such executive order; the Interagency Review Council described in Executive Order 13747 should perform the functions ascribed to it in section 2 of such executive order; and the President should consider appointing an individual serving on the National Security Council, at the senior director level or higher and with significant background and expertise in public health, health security, or emergency biological response management, to convene and coordinate— the interagency process of the Federal departments and agencies implementing the functions described in section 3 of Executive Order 13747; and the interagency process to ensure continuity of effort across the Federal departments and agencies engaged in domestic and international global health security preparedness and response.
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