The panel was formed to recommend changes to U.S. policy and law to strengthen national biodefense while optimizing resource investments. Former Senator Joe Lieberman and former Governor Tom Ridge co-chair the panel, joined by panel members former Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, former Senator Tom Daschle, former Representative Jim Greenwood, and the Honorable Kenneth Wainstein.
The Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies (administered by the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies) is an institutional co-sponsor of the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense's report.
For more information on the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense, please visit their website.