Sec. 3. Purpose
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The purpose of this Act is to advance the global health security and diplomacy objectives of the United States, improve coordination among the relevant Federal departments and agencies implementing United States foreign assistance for global health security, and more effectively enable partner countries to strengthen and sustain resilient health systems and supply chains with the resources, capacity, and personnel required to prevent, detect, mitigate, and respond to infectious disease threats before they become pandemics by— establishing a comprehensive United States Global Health Security Strategy with a One Health approach and clear goals, objectives, and benchmarks, as well as instruments to monitor and evaluate outputs and outcomes, measure impact, and share data and learning; establishing a mechanism to coordinate United States global health security policies, activities, and assistance, including efforts to advance the United States Global Health Security Strategy and the Global Health Security Agenda, while fully utilizing the unique capabilities of the relevant Federal departments and agencies; coordinating with key stakeholders and supporting partner country efforts to strengthen and sustain more resilient health systems and supply chains; accelerating progress under the United States Global Health Security Strategy, the Global Health Security Agenda, the World Health Organization International Health Regulations, and other relevant frameworks that contribute to global health security; enhancing support for innovation and public-private partnerships for research, development, and deployment of effective and affordable disease tracking tools, diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines; authorizing appropriations to advance the United States Global Health Security Strategy and provide for a global health security emergency reserve; and authorizing the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of the Treasury, to enter into negotiations for the establishment of the Trust Fund for Global Health Security.