High-Consequence Infectious Diseases, Bioterrorism, and the Imperative for International and US Biosecurity and Biosafety Frameworks for Biocontainment Clinical Laboratories

Affiliation

• ¹ Syra Madad, DHSc, MSc, MCP, CHEP, is Senior Director, System-Wide Special Pathogens Program, Emergency Management, NYC Health + Hospitals (H+H), New York, NY. Jessica L. Jacobson, MD, is Laboratory Director and Chief of Pathology, NYC H+H/Bellevue, and a Clinical Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine; both in New York, NY. Rebecca R. Caruso, MPH, RBP, CBSP (ABSA), CAGS, is Director, Committee on Microbiological Safety, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Jake Dunning, MBBS, MRCP, DIC, PhD, is a Consultant, Department of Infectious Diseases, Royal Free Hospital, London, and a Senior Research Fellow, Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.