PAHPA (2006)
policy
The law that turned emergency pandemic response into a permanent office with a permanent budget.
Who they are
The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act — Public Law 109-417, signed 19 December 2006[1].
What they do
The engine treats it as the hinge of the whole biodefense money pipeline. Before it, pandemic response was assembled when something happened. After it, there was a standing office and a standing funding arm waiting.
How it works
Section 2811 created the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response inside the health department, and handed that office coordination of the national medicine stockpile. Title IV created BARDA, the agency that writes the countermeasure cheques.
Why it matters
Project BioShield had already created a guaranteed government market for these products and the PREP Act had already removed the makers' legal risk. This law gave that arrangement an office, a boss and a budget line.
The engine's record — word for word
The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act is Public Law 109-417, approved December 19, 2006.[1] Section 2811 of the Act establishes, within the Department of Health and Human Services, the position of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.[2] The same section gives that office coordination responsibility over the Strategic National Stockpile.[3] Title IV of the Act establishes the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.[4] The statute is the hinge of the biodefense procurement architecture: it converts the countermeasure market created by Project BioShield and indemnified by the PREP Act into a standing office with a standing funding arm, rather than an emergency response assembled after the fact.[5]
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