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AnalyticsEpidemic Forecasting ActBiodetectionPathogensBiosecurityPrioritiesPreparednessDevelop2018BioterrorismInsufficientCollaborationDetection capabilitiesTimelyEarly detectionInfectiousBaselineIdentifySystemGapsEnhancePublic healthCapacity and capabilityDataCatastrophicEffectivenessCore capabilitiesSurveillance capabilitiesTechnologyDraperStrategyHealthResponseNetworkProvideResourcesSymposiumCenterEstablishAccessServicesSolutionOperationalEffortsOpenDiseaseImprove
Analytics3
  • Nov. 8, 2012 - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded Accenture Federal Services a $3 million, one-year contract to help the Office of Health Affairs (OHA) enhance its biosurveillance capabilities using social media analytics . (accenture.com)
  • We're delivering a healthier, safer world through our proven, best-in-class solutions and expertise in biosecurity and biosurveillance, health IT/analytics, and research support services. (parsons.com)
  • In partnering with Concentric by Ginkgo, the university will gain access to the biosurveillance research and analytics capabilities used by government institutions to help build more stable and robust biosecurity infrastructure. (ginkgobioworks.com)
Epidemic Forecasting Act2
  • WASHINGTON- U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and John Hickenlooper (D-CO) today introduced the Modernizing Bio-Surveillance Capabilities and Epidemic Forecasting Act , a bill to require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to better track infectious diseases and enhance our epidemic forecasting capabilities to improve public health readiness and responses to future pandemics. (senate.gov)
  • Hickenlooper is sponsoring two bills in Congress to help bring changes and resources to better respond to future pandemics - the Early Countermeasure Discovery Act and Modernizing Biosurveillance Capabilities and Epidemic Forecasting Act. (cuanschutz.edu)
Biodetection1
  • The program was created to augment and improve current biodetection and biosurveillance capabilities. (ginkgobioworks.com)
Pathogens3
  • Briefly, the nation needs a robust national capability for surveillance of human, animal, and plant pathogens that integrates environmental, epidemiological, and clinical information with genomic sequence data and analysis on a routine basis. (interolifesciences.com)
  • In particular, NGS has greatly expanded the capabilities of detecting biothreats, unexpected pathogens, or even the completely novel, previously unknown threat," the authors observed. (aacc.org)
  • developing and applying genomics resources, to enable diagnostics and biosurveillance capabilities for these fungal pathogens. (plantbiosecuritydiagnostics.net.au)
Biosecurity5
  • The ability to detect genetic engineering in complex biological samples has long been a moonshot goal, and these new capabilities are poised to transform national biosecurity efforts. (ginkgobioworks.com)
  • Working with IARPA, we've developed a fundamentally new biosecurity capability that will enhance our ability to detect, characterize, and respond to biological threats. (ginkgobioworks.com)
  • Oct. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA), which is building the leading platform for cell programming and biosecurity, today announced it is joining efforts with Penn State University to integrate its biosurveillance capabilities into the university's research of 58 wildlife species for SARS-CoV-2 to monitor potential spillover to humans. (ginkgobioworks.com)
  • We are thrilled to collaborate with Penn State, a land-grant institution at the forefront of zoonotic SARS-CoV-2 biosurveillance, and we are proud to participate in the work USDA is doing to lead on biosecurity," said Matt McKnight, General Manager for Biosecurity at Ginkgo Bioworks. (ginkgobioworks.com)
  • This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including statements regarding the capabilities and potential success of the partnership and Ginkgo's biosecurity platform. (ginkgobioworks.com)
Priorities2
  • President Barack Obama issued a national strategy on biosurveillance in 2012, which included a technology roadmap identifying research-and-development priorities. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
  • Each center of excellence will conduct two new projects that support national priorities in informatics, and support real-time biosurveillance for potential health threats through immediate access to data from hospitals and health care systems in major metropolitan areas across the nation. (cdc.gov)
Preparedness4
  • and facilitating participatory, standardized assessments ( http://www.cdc.gov/flu/international/tools.htm ) of national influenza laboratories, surveillance systems, and core capabilities for influenza pandemic preparedness, each with targeted technical recommendations ( 4 - 6 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Ensuring stable, sufficient health emergency preparedness funding to maintain a standing set of foundational capabilities alongside a complementary Public Health Emergency Fund which would provide immediate surge funding during an emergency. (securitymagazine.com)
  • The National Preparedness Goal identifies five mission areas and 32 core capabilities intended to assist everyone who has a role in achieving all of the elements in the Goal. (fema.gov)
  • The core capabilities, established in the National Preparedness Goal , are referenced in many national preparedness efforts, including the National Planning Frameworks . (fema.gov)
Develop4
  • The U.S. Government to develop a nationwide, robust, and integrated biosurveillance capability, with connection to international disease-surveillance system, in order to provide early warning and ongoing characterization of disease outbreaks in real-time. (interolifesciences.com)
  • We will discuss the resources needed to develop biosurveillance registries, the role of HIM professionals in defining data elements, and the value that HIM brings to biosurveillance efforts. (assignmentpaperwriting.com)
  • As this committee began its work, an effort to develop a National Biosurveillance Strategy, mandated by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 21 (HSPD-21), was getting under way through the coordination efforts of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2008a). (nationalacademies.org)
  • I also collect qualitative and quantitative data to assess research plans, activities, and accomplishments to develop recommendations for the MHRP Director and the Capability Area Manager (CAM). (hivresearch.org)
20181
  • President Donald J. Trump announced combined U.S., French and British forces launched precision strikes April 13, 2018, against chemical weapons capabilities in Syria to deter Syrian leader Bashar Assad from using banned chemical weapons. (defense.gov)
Bioterrorism4
  • Identify the specific data elements that should be included in the biosurveillance registry to track potential bioterrorism cases. (assignmentpaperwriting.com)
  • Discuss how the biosurveillance registry can support evidence-based decision-making, resource allocation, and public health interventions to mitigate the impact of bioterrorism and infectious diseases. (assignmentpaperwriting.com)
  • The integration of human health information with information about infectious agents derived from surveillance of animal disease, water quality, and air quality-or "biosurveillance"-is needed to defend against bioterrorism and natural pandemics. (nationalacademies.org)
  • TechXplore 4 also showcased the work of HTX scientists who are advancing science & tech and developing new capabilities that will safeguard Singapore against bioterrorism and biological threats of concern. (htx.gov.sg)
Insufficient1
  • Events in the present Ebola crisis prompt unease that the United States deployment of Web based, standardized population health and biosurveillance information services is fragmented, incomplete and insufficient, prompting me to write this blog. (openhealthnews.com)
Collaboration4
  • Require the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to include how the department plans to improve coordination and collaboration with other Federal departments, support testing, and implement lessons learned during this Public Health Emergency to address gaps in bio surveillance capabilities in an already required report to Congress. (senate.gov)
  • Sponsored by the V Fund to advance web-based analytic capabilities, Sandia National Laboratories, in collaboration with Recorded Future (RF), synthesized open-source data streams from a wide variety of traditional and nontraditional web sources in multiple languages along with topical texts and articles on national security policy to determine the efficacy of monitoring chemical and biological arms control agreements and compliance. (sciencediplomacy.org)
  • Ceres and Concentric have set up labs in the Middle East and Africa through our collaboration, offering a cutting-edge approach to biosurveillance technologies and lab enablement. (concentricbyginkgo.com)
  • A national biosurveillance program requires the collaboration of multiple federal, state and local agencies to provide a comprehensive view of a health-related event. (openhealthnews.com)
Detection capabilities2
  • JUPITR, a program led by the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense, and supported by the US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, will provide unique biological detection capabilities to decrease soldier workload, lower operational costs, increase performance, and create a stronger biological defense capability throughout South Korea. (hstoday.us)
  • While nominally focused on "bioterrorist attacks," TIA's Bio-Surveillance project also sought to acquire early detection capabilities for "normal" disease outbreaks. (thecognitiveman.com)
Timely2
  • The agency's medical director has requested the establishment of a biosurveillance registry to track potential cases and provide timely information for response and mitigation efforts. (assignmentpaperwriting.com)
  • Advances in PHI resulted in public health innovations and added value to interventions by providing the capability for more timely detection of health threats and more complete and efficient health communications. (cdc.gov)
Early detection2
  • The agency recognizes the need for a robust biosurveillance system to enhance early detection and response capabilities. (assignmentpaperwriting.com)
  • For agencies and organizations charged with protecting public health, food safety, the environment and economic security, early detection-especially in the field-is a needed capability, one lacking to date. (draper.com)
Infectious2
  • Agencies should give priority to programs that support fundamental biological discovery research that could generate unexpected, high-impact scientific and technological advances in health, energy, and food security, particularly in the President's BRAIN Initiative, the National Strategy for Combating Antibiotic Resistance , and the National Strategy for Biosurveillance (e.g., infectious-disease forecasting capabilities). (genestogenomes.org)
  • He previously worked for as the Program Manager at Makerere University Walter Reed Project supporting the Emerging Infectious Diseases Program (EIDP) for ten years and also supported the Joint Mobile Emerging Disease Intervention Clinical Capability (JMEDICC) program, providing leadership in research and surveillance of influenza, Antimicrobial resistance, Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (Specifically Ebola and Marburg) acute febrile illness, electronic bio-surveillance systems for outbreak detection, zoonotic disease surveillance and Laboratory capacity. (sched.com)
Baseline1
  • Requiring strong, consistent baseline public health Foundational Capabilities in regions, states and communities-so that everyone is protected. (securitymagazine.com)
Identify1
  • The objectives of the Project are to enhance and strengthen Australia's diagnostic capacity and capability to identify priority plant pests that impact on plant industries, environment and the community. (plantbiosecuritydiagnostics.net.au)
System6
  • This system will be commercially available to customers needing biosurveillance capabilities for open or closed-air environments, such as industrial facilities, airports, shopping malls, stadiums, and other highly populated areas. (hstoday.us)
  • Discuss strategies and best practices for overcoming these challenges and maximizing the effectiveness of the biosurveillance system in your public health agency. (assignmentpaperwriting.com)
  • 2) oversee development and operation of the National Biosurveillance Integration System. (lawcator.org)
  • Georgia stakeholders (NCDC and LMA) to support efforts that will enhance the prospects for long-term sustainment of the DTRA-developed Bio-surveillance System facilities and capabilities in Georgia. (iqls.net)
  • HHS Protect, the coronavirus biosurveillance system comprised of several different technology capabilities, aims to provide near real-time data to first responders, such as policy officials and health experts, and serve as a common vantage point for what's happening in the United States regarding COVID-19. (governmentciomedia.com)
  • Image recognition techniques will focus on object detection in context of the new optical design and hardware specifications will be considered with the aim of transitioning development into a low- cost system to remotely transmit abundance information to community public health agencies and support actionable biosurveillance. (inknowvation.com)
Gaps1
  • Check out our Core Capability Development Sheets for tools to build or sustain capabilities and close identified gaps, including: training courses, planning partners, validation support and more. (fema.gov)
Enhance3
  • Direct the CDC to continue disease outbreak analysis capabilities, and enhance prediction, modeling, and forecasting of potential public health emergencies. (senate.gov)
  • In a statement, Deepak Kumar, Ph.D., director of JLC-BBRI said, "This project will enhance the research and educational capability at NCCU and provide opportunities for our students and faculty to gain experiences in national security areas such as data science and border security. (wraltechwire.com)
  • The use of unmanned technologies will enhance the capabilities of SCDF Marine Division operations and help SCDF optimise manpower and more safely deploy its resources," said Ho Choong Chuin, Deputy Director (Maritime Systems), RAUS CoE. (htx.gov.sg)
Public health6
  • 2) Enhancing Basic Infrastructure Capabilities that Support Public Health Practice. (cdc.gov)
  • Biosurveillance is the monitoring of public health trends and unusual occurrences, relying on pre-existing, real-time health data - data that is publicly available and easily obtained. (accenture.com)
  • WONDER/PC--- released to the broader public health community in 1992---included access to e-mail for practitioners from local and state health departments, private bulletin boards, and searchable CDC document libraries plus the capability to download data in CDC surveillance programs while maintaining data security and patient confidentiality. (cdc.gov)
  • The multiplicity of surveillance systems (many of them monitoring specific diseases), the unevenness of their capabilities, and both the strengths and limitations of current approaches to surveillance through public health and health care systems have been the subject of many different studies, task forces, commissions, and other efforts both to assess the status of the situation and to propose changes to remedy current problems and bring about improvements (e.g. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The public health EEGs presented here are based on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) concept of capabilities. (hsaj.org)
  • Biotechnologies Draper is designing for national security biosurveillance have immense promise for use in public health, precision medicine, environmental monitoring, food safety and agricultural export and import controls. (draper.com)
Capacity and capability1
  • Due to the resource-intensive nature of vector surveillance many county and municipal departments of health particularly those in rural communities do not have the capacity and capability to conduct routine surveillance. (inknowvation.com)
Data5
  • biosurveillance, which involves active data gathering of biosphere data to detect biothreat at the early stages. (aacc.org)
  • Discuss how HIM professionals can contribute their expertise in data management, coding, and information governance to ensure the accuracy, integrity, and confidentiality of data within the biosurveillance registry. (assignmentpaperwriting.com)
  • By the early 1990s, CDC and its partners recognized both the costliness of systems specific to categorical diseases and health conditions and the capability of the Internet to permit more efficient approaches to data collection and analyses. (cdc.gov)
  • Digital Platforms are a collection of technology capabilities, and components that are used as a base upon which other applications, processes, technologies are able to interact with each other, exchanging value, digitizing processes , enabling data driven ecosystems , developing digital services and creating value for users . (eng.it)
  • Bitscopic's Praedico™ biosurveillance platform breaks down the data barriers among organizations with an extensible architecture that can incorporate any kind of data. (openhealthnews.com)
Catastrophic1
  • A biological event, such as a naturally occurring pandemic or a terrorist attack, could have catastrophic consequences, which underscores the importance of a national biosurveillance capability. (domesticpreparedness.com)
Effectiveness1
  • Rebuilding and modernizing defense capabilities and infrastructure is essential to the continued effectiveness and resiliency of the U.S. nuclear deterrent. (defense.gov)
Core capabilities2
  • Some core capabilities fall within a single mission area, while others apply to multiple or all mission areas. (fema.gov)
  • Establish and maintain a unified and coordinated operational structure and process that appropriately integrates all critical stakeholders and supports the execution of core capabilities. (fema.gov)
Surveillance capabilities1
  • We are investigating five aspects of the wasp s biology relating to its EAB surveillance capabilities. (confex.com)
Technology2
  • Previous investments by GEIS in this technology have given our partners the capability to respond and sequence SARS-CoV-2 genomes isolated from DOD Service members around the world. (health.mil)
  • However, she stated explicitly that "the goal of using open source information technology and social networks should be to add to our existing arms control monitoring and verification capabilities, not to supersede them. (sciencediplomacy.org)
Draper1
  • At Draper, we believe exciting things happen when new capabilities are imagined and created. (ginkgobioworks.com)
Strategy2
Health2
Response1
  • Engineers from HTX's Robotics, Automation & Unmanned Systems Centre of Expertise (RAUS CoE) showcased a Firefighting Unmanned Surface Vessel (FiFi USV), which is being developed to augment Singapore Civil Defence Force's (SCDF) maritime firefighting and emergency response capabilities. (htx.gov.sg)
Network2
  • The document said a biosurveillance network should provide essential information to decision-makers, said Navy Cmdr. (nationaldefensemagazine.org)
  • For instance, UKHSA is scoping a likely networked surveillance capability across the Uk - a opportunity National Biosurveillance Network- continuing to deploy our genomic sequencing ability close to the entire world by way of our New Variant Assessment Platform, participating in global initiatives these kinds of as the Worldwide Pathogen Surveillance Community and continuing to scope and discover the development of wastewater surveillance. (my.id)
Provide1
  • In order to do that, the first thing you need to do is have an identity and access management authentication capability that's extremely flexible, and then make sure that you provide control to any partner that you're engaging - we have federal, state, local, and commercial partners that actually have access to the platform. (governmentciomedia.com)
Resources2
  • These algorithms will expand the predictive capabilities and efficient use of inspection resources for bio-surveillance and bio-threat assessments at the border. (wraltechwire.com)
  • Capabilities-based planning has been used by the military to plan for flexible configuration and deployment of resources under conditions of great uncertainty. (hsaj.org)
Symposium1
  • Our space team showcasing Parsons capabilities at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, CO. (parsons.com)
Center2
  • The Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, shall establish, operate, and maintain a National Biosurveillance Integration Center (referred to in this section as the 'NBIC'), which shall be headed by a Directing Officer, under an office or directorate of the Department that is in existence as of August 3, 2007. (lawcator.org)
  • This report discusses the (a) extent to which National Biosurveillance Integration Center is implementing its roles as a biosurveillance integrator, and (b) options for improving such integration. (domesticpreparedness.com)
Establish1
  • This connection helped to establish a collaborative approach to the sequencing capabilities. (health.mil)
Access1
Services1
  • There are "ecosystem" platforms that enable new business models powered by various digital services, and "vertical" platforms that enable specific business capabilities . (eng.it)
Solution2
Operational2
  • The DHS provides a definition of capabilities in operational terms: Responders become capable of performing critical tasks to expected levels of proficiency through adequate planning, equipping, training, organizing, and exercising that includes evaluation and corrective action. (hsaj.org)
  • We add value to the Home Team by identifying the best technologies for operational deployment and work closely with industrial partners to sharpen the Home Team's capabilities," Anna added. (htx.gov.sg)
Efforts1
Open1
  • We are developing both open "ecosystem" platforms to foster innovation and give value to current capabilities, as well as "vertical" platforms that accelerate and enable new business paradigm. (eng.it)
Disease1
  • The recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa exemplifies how NGS was applied in biosurveillance. (aacc.org)
Improve1
  • DOD laboratories quickly established the ability to isolate the virus, share samples, and compare laboratory methods to improve their sequencing capabilities. (health.mil)