| U.S. Global Health and National Security Policy
Feldbaum, Harley
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Report of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, April 20, 2009, 15p
"The emergence of HIV/AIDS, SARS, extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, and avian influenza, as well as the Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attack and anthrax letters, have demonstrated the threat that certain global health issues pose to U.S. national security. The related threats of infectious disease epidemics and bioterrorism are being driven by trends related to globalization. Increased travel, trade, development, and land use are creating new infectious disease threats, and the rise of nonstate actors and the global dissemination of advances in biology and technology are facilitating the potential use of biological weapons. Underlying both threats is a growing acceptance of global interdependence on health issues. [...] U.S. policymaking to address global health threats is complicated by a rising dependence of U.S. security on health conditions in other countries as well as weak health knowledge among foreign policy and national security decisionmakers."
Harley Feldbaum is Professorial Lecturer of International Policy and Associate Director of the Global Health and Foreign Policy Initiative.
Go to the report at:
http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/090420_feldbaum_usglobalhealth.pdf
H6/03-09 Posted May 26, 2009
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