Bioterrorism Preparedness, FY 2005
Funding
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The final FY 2005 appropriations bill provides $1.164 billion for
the CDC ($58 million over FY 2004), which includes $396.8 million
for the Strategic National Stockpile, $926.9 million for state and
local preparedness, $141.1 million for upgrading CDC capacity, $79.4
million for biosurveillance activities, and $16.7 million for anthrax
vaccine research. The HRSA Hospital Bioterrorism Preparedness program
receives $491.4 million, a $26.6 million (5.2 percent) decrease
below FY 2004. The curriculum development program receives $27.5
million, level with last year. Another $47 million is directed to
the NIH for research on countermeasures.
Administration Activity
The president's FY 2005 budget provides $476 million, a $39 million
cut (7.5 percent), for the Bioterrorism Hospital Preparedness program,
administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA). The HRSA bioterrorism curriculum development grants are
allotted $28 million in the budget, level with current funding.
Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) related to
bioterrorism would receive $1.7 billion, a $121 million (7.5 percent)
increase.
The budget also includes $1.1 billion for the state preparedness
programs administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC), the same level as current funding. Included in this total
is $130 million for CDC's role in the interagency biosurveillance
initiative (see below), the largest component of which is $100 million
for "BioSense," an advanced approach to infectious disease
detection. Also specified is $20 million to improve lab reporting
and integration between public health and commercial labs, and the
remaining $10 million will increase the number of border health
and quarantine stations from 8 to 25.
The president's new $274 million surveillance initiative is designed
to protect the nation against bioterrorism and to strengthen the
public health infrastructure. The program would be coordinated by
the CDC, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Food and
Drug Administration, and the Department of Agriculture and would
enhance surveillance in human health, hospital preparedness, state
and local preparedness, vaccine research and procurement, animal
health, food and agriculture safety and environmental monitoring.
This plan includes the $130 million to the CDC outlined above.
Contact
Erica Froyd, Director, Public Health and Research Legislative Affairs
AAMC Office of Governmental Relations
efroyd@aamc.org
(202) 828-0525
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