Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act
In March 2013 Congress passed and the President signed the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act (PAHPRA), Public Law No. 113-5.
The 2013 law builds on work the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services has undertaken to advance national health security. These
include authorizing funding for public health and medical preparedness
programs, such as the Hospital Preparedness Program
and the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Cooperative Agreement,
amending the Public Health Service Act to grant state health departments
greatly needed flexibility in dedicating staff resources to meeting
critical community needs in a disaster, authorizing funding through 2018
for buying medical countermeasures under the Project BioShield Act, and
increasing the flexibility of BioShield to support advanced research
and development of potential medical countermeasures. PAHPRA also
enhances the authority of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to
support rapid responses to public health emergencies.
The purpose of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness
Reauthorization Act is “to reauthorize certain programs under the Public
Health Service Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with
respect to public health security and all-hazards preparedness.”
Major Program Areas
- National Health Security Strategy
- Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
- National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters
- Modernization of the National Disaster Medical System
- Temporary reassignment of State and local personnel during a public health emergency
- Improving State and local public health security
- Hospital preparedness and medical surge capacity
- Enhancing situational awareness and biosurveillance
- Enhancing medical countermeasure review
- Accelerating medical countermeasure advanced research and development
Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act
- This page last reviewed: March 18, 2014
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