National Biodefense Strategy and Implementation Plan

This National Biodefense Strategy and Implementation Plan for Countering Biological Threats, Enhancing Pandemic Preparedness, and Achieving Global Health Security (Strategy) brings together a single coordinated effort to orchestrate the full range of activity that is carried out across the U.S. government to protect the American people and its global interests from biological threats, regardless of origin. With National Security Memorandum-15 (NSM-15), this Strategy explains how the government will manage its activities to more effectively assess, prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from biological threats, coordinating its biodefense efforts with those of SLTT entities, international partners, industry, academia, nongovernmental entities, and the private sector.