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White House Initiating Comprehensive Biodefense Strategy, Official Says

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

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The Trump administration will develop a comprehensive strategy to address biothreats to the U.S. whether natural or manmade, says the president’s senior advisor for homeland security issues.The strategy development will be coordinated by Tom Bossert, assistant to the President on Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Bossert says at the recent Aspen Security Forum. He says that U.S. has never had a comprehensive biodefense strategy, noting that both former Presidents Bush and Obama issued presidential directives but that “we’ve had a lot…

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