biodefense
noun
bio·de·fense
ˌbī-(ˌ)ō-di-ˈfen(t)s 
often attributive
: the means or methods of preventing, detecting, or managing an attack involving biological weapons
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The yet to be released national biodefense strategy, which was called for in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, is required to address natural, deliberate, and accidental pandemic threats, international and domestic.
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Tom Inglesby, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2017
Ideas By Raj Panjabi June 11, 2024 3:58 PM EDT
Dr. Raj Panjabi is former White House Senior Director for global health security and biodefense and on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
—Raj Panjabi, TIME, 11 June 2024
Luciana Borio is an infectious disease physician, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, a venture partner at ARCH Venture Partners, and former director for medical and biodefense preparedness policy at the National Security Council.
—Luciana Borio and Phil Krause, STAT, 12 Apr. 2024
China’s struggles with lab safety carry danger of another pandemic
Beijing has called for the United States to release more details of its own biodefense research and has echoed unproven claims made by Moscow that the Pentagon is financing biological weapons labs in Ukraine.
—Cate Cadell, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
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Tom Inglesby, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2017
Ideas By Raj Panjabi June 11, 2024 3:58 PM EDT
Dr. Raj Panjabi is former White House Senior Director for global health security and biodefense and on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
—Raj Panjabi, TIME, 11 June 2024
Luciana Borio is an infectious disease physician, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, a venture partner at ARCH Venture Partners, and former director for medical and biodefense preparedness policy at the National Security Council.
—Luciana Borio and Phil Krause, STAT, 12 Apr. 2024
China’s struggles with lab safety carry danger of another pandemic
Beijing has called for the United States to release more details of its own biodefense research and has echoed unproven claims made by Moscow that the Pentagon is financing biological weapons labs in Ukraine.
—Cate Cadell, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
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biodefense
noun
bio·de·fense
-di-ˈfen(t)s
: the means or methods of preventing, detecting, or managing an attack involving biological weapons
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases money will continue to support research in biodefense and emerging infectious diseases throughout the Midwest.—St. Louis Business Journal
—often used before another nounSt. Louis Business Journal… funding for biodefense research and public-health preparedness has soared …—Discover
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