The Department of Defense’s Newly Released Biodefense Posture Review

Please join the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security on Wednesday, August 23, from 10:30 am to 11:30 am ET for an event on the Department of Defense’s Biodefense Posture Review. Directed by Secretary Austin in November 2021, the review is charged with synchronizing, modernizing, and elevating the Department’s approach to biodefense across the full spectrum of natural, accidental, and deliberate biological threats. The review drew upon both the office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs and the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy. Following a keynote address by Hon. Deborah Rosenblum, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs, CSIS Senior Associate RADM (ret.) Tom Cullison will moderate a roundtable conversation on the significance of the review, its priority elements, and how to move its recommendations forward. Participants will include Assistant Secretary Rosenblum,  Brandi Vann, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs; Richard Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy; and Asha George, Executive Director of the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense. 

This event is made possible by the generous support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.