Uploaded April 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Part Five - With Andrew Natsios, Director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at Texas A&M University; Scott Dowell, Deputy Director for Surveillance and Epidemiology at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and Elizabeth Cameron, Vice President for Global Biological Policy and Programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

The biological threats to the Nation increase continuously, recognizing no borders. As emerging and reemerging naturally occurring diseases continue to spread throughout the world, terrorists continue to pursue biological weapons to add to their arsenal, and nation states are establishing new and reinvigorating old offensive biological weapons programs. This meeting of the Study Panel, chaired by former Senator Joe Lieberman and Governor Tom Ridge, provided the Study Panel with a better understanding of:

- Current transnational biological threats;
- Homeland defense and security in the global context;
- Global security efforts to combat these threats;
- International public health security efforts; and
- The need to elevate global health security as a national and global priority.