All Topics  
Center for Biosecurity

 

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

Center for Biosecurity
 
 
  Topics Center for Biosecurity Topic Home

The Center for Biosecurity is an independent, nonprofit organization of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is a leading American healthcare provider and institution for medical research. Systemwide, UPMC is a $7 billion non-profit organization that has 48,000 employees, 20 hospitals, 400 outpatient sites and doctors? offices, a 1.2-million-member health insurance division, as well as commercial and inte...
 (UPMC) that is dedicated to improving the country’s resilience to major biological threats.

Center’s mission is to affect policy and practice in ways that lessen the illness, death, and civil disruption that would follow large-scale epidemics, whether they occur naturally or result from the use of a biological weapon.






Discussion
Ask a question about 'Center for Biosecurity'
Start a new discussion about 'Center for Biosecurity'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


The Center for Biosecurity is an independent, nonprofit organization of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is a leading American healthcare provider and institution for medical research. Systemwide, UPMC is a $7 billion non-profit organization that has 48,000 employees, 20 hospitals, 400 outpatient sites and doctors? offices, a 1.2-million-member health insurance division, as well as commercial and inte...
 (UPMC) that is dedicated to improving the country’s resilience to major biological threats.

Mission Statement

The Center’s mission is to affect policy and practice in ways that lessen the illness, death, and civil disruption that would follow large-scale epidemics, whether they occur naturally or result from the use of a biological weapon. Toward that end, the Center: 1) Provides independent, critical research and analysis for decision makers in government, national security, bioscience, medicine, public health, and private industry; 2) Builds international networks of scientists, medical and public health practitioners, scholars, and decision makers to improve communication about biosecurity, create common objectives, and facilitate development of new knowledge; 3) Proposes, designs, builds, tests, and promulgates essential operational systems needed to manage the response to bioattacks and mass casualty epidemics; 4) Develops scenarios for decision makers that illustrate key challenges in epidemic preparedness and response and offer possible paths forward; and 5) Promotes the responsible use and governance of increasingly powerful bioscience and biotechnologies.

The Center’s multidisciplinary professional staff has experience in government, medicine, public health, bioscience, and the social sciences. Staff members publish research findings regularly and are frequently consulted by government agencies, businesses, academia, and the media for independent analyses of issues pertaining to national and global epidemic preparedness and response.

Major Conferences and Events

  • . February 1999
  • . November 2000
  • . June 2001
  • . February 2003
  • . January 2005
  • . May 2005
  • . September 2005
  • . May 2006


Sources and notes



Further reading