Sec. 203. Committee on Global Health Security and Pandemic and Biological Threats
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It shall be the policy of the United States— to promote global health security as a core national and security interest; and to ensure effective coordination and collaboration between the relevant Federal departments and agencies engaged domestically and internationally in efforts to advance the global health security of the United States, in accordance with paragraph (1). In this subsection, the term pandemic threat means any infectious disease that— has an aggregation of cases in a community that rises above what is normally expected in that population in that area; has the potential to spread over several countries or continents; and could, if not addressed, threaten the national security of the United States.
There is authorized to be established, within the National Security Council, the Committee on Global Health Security and Pandemic and Biological Threats (referred to in this subsection as the Committee ), whose day to day operations should be led by the Special Advisor for Global Health Security. The Special Advisor for Global Health Security referred to in paragraph (2)— should serve as part of the staff of the National Security Council; and may also be the Senior Director for a Global Health Security and Biodefense Directorate within the Executive Office of the President, who reports to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
The Committee should include the following members: The Director of National Intelligence. The Secretary of State. The Secretary of Defense. The Secretary of Health and Human Services. The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. The Secretary of Agriculture. The Secretary of the Treasury. The Attorney General. The Secretary of Homeland Security. The Office of Management and Budget. The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, who should serve as the chairperson of the Committee. Such other members as the President may designate. The functions of the Committee should be— to provide strategic guidance for the development of a policy framework for activities of the United States Government relating to global health security, including pandemic prevention, preparedness and response; and to ensure policy coordination between United States Government agencies, especially coordination between— agencies with a primarily domestic mandate; and agencies with an international mandate relating to global health security and pandemic threats.
In carrying out the functions described in subparagraph (A), the Committee should— conduct, in coordination with the heads of relevant Federal agencies, a review of existing United States health security policies and strategies and develop recommendations for how the Federal Government may regularly update and harmonize such policies and strategies to ensure the timely development of a comprehensive coordinated strategy to enable the United States Government to respond to pandemic threats and to monitor the implementation of such strategies; develop a plan for— establishing an interagency National Center for Epidemic Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics; and modernizing global early warning and trigger systems for scaling action to prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from emerging biological threats; provide policy-level recommendations to participating agencies regarding the Global Health Security Agenda goals, objectives, and implementation, and other international efforts to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response; review the progress toward, and working to resolve challenges in, achieving United States commitments under the GHSA; develop protocols for coordinating and deploying a global response to emerging high-consequence infectious disease threats that outline the respective roles for relevant Federal agencies in facilitating and supporting such response operations that should facilitate the operational work of Federal agencies, and of the Special Advisor for Global Health Security; make recommendations regarding appropriate responses to specific pandemic threats and ensure the coordination of domestic and international agencies regarding the Federal Government’s efforts to prevent, detect, respond to, and recover from biological events; and take steps to strengthen the global pandemic supply chain and address any barriers to the timely delivery of supplies in response to a pandemic, including through engagement with the private sector, as appropriate; develop policies and procedures to ensure the effective sharing of information from domestic and international sources about pandemic threats among the relevant Federal departments and agencies, State and local governments, and international partners and organizations; and develop guidelines to enhance and improve the operational coordination between State and local governments and Federal agencies with respect to pandemic threats.
The Committee should not assume any foreign affairs responsibilities of the Secretary of State, including the responsibility to oversee the implementation of programs and policies that advance global health security within foreign countries. The heads of the agencies listed in paragraph
(4)should— make global health security and pandemic threat reduction a high priority within their respective agencies, and include global health security and pandemic threat reduction-related activities within their respective agencies’ strategic planning and budget processes; designate a senior-level official to be responsible for global health security and pandemic threat reduction at each of their respective agencies; designate, in accordance with paragraph (4), an appropriate representative at the Assistant Secretary level or higher to participate on the Committee in instances where the head of the agency cannot participate; keep the Committee apprised of Global Health Security and pandemic threat reduction-related activities undertaken within their respective agencies; ensure interagency cooperation and collaboration and maintain responsibility for agency-related programmatic functions including, as applicable, in coordination with host governments, country teams, and global health security in-country teams; and keep the Committee apprised of GHSA-related activities undertaken within their respective agencies. In addition to the roles and responsibilities described in subparagraph (A), the heads of the agencies described in paragraph
(4)should carry out their respective roles and responsibilities described in Executive Order 13747 (81 Fed. Reg. 78701; relating to Advancing the Global Health Security Agenda to Achieve a World Safe and Secure from Infectious Disease Threats) and the National Security Memorandum-1 on United States Global Leadership to Strengthen the International COVID–19 Response and to Advance Global Health Security and Biological Preparedness, as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act.
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Committee on Global Health Security and Pandemic and Biological Threats
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