An ad hoc committee will examine international health security programs and organizations with missions to enhance health security by promoting biosafety, biosecurity, disease surveillance, health security, and biorisk management with foreign partner countries. By engaging experts from countries that actively sponsor such work and building on past work that established overall goals (such as Global Health Security Agenda action package five-year targets), the study committee will address the following questions:

1. What principles guide successful health security programs?

2. How can the programs around the world better coordinate and align actions with established targets to ensure that efforts are not duplicated unnecessarily and opportunities are not missed because of gaps in authorities and program practices?

3. What steps can be taken to ensure that health security programs continue to prioritize biosafety and biosecurity over the next five years?

4. What gaps are most important for the international community to address to advance global health security over the next five years?

5. How should the overall mission picture be integrated to make it easier to make budget priorities match policy priorities?

In its report, the study committee will articulate a five-year strategic vision for health security and provide findings and recommendations to address the questions above.