The Biden-Harris Administration has released the 2022 National Biodefence Strategy. The National Biodefense Strategy and Implementation Plan on Countering Biological Threats, Enhancing Pandemic Preparedness, and Achieving Global Health Security provides a whole-of-government framework that organizes how the U.S. Government manages its activities to more effectively assess, prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from biological threats.

This strategy builds from a holistic “One Health” approach by interweaving efforts addressing human, animal, plant, and environmental threats throughout. The strategy also expands the U.S. Government’s efforts to address the full range of future biological threats of natural, accidental, and deliberate origin, incorporates both technological and policy needs revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and provides an opportunity for our government to build core values of equity and accountability into its efforts to protect the health and security of the American people.