More than 100 stakeholder groups call on US Congress leadership to reauthorize PAHPA

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November 14, 2023 – Today, more than 100 stakeholders, including the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), and other groups representing academia, industry, and research institutes, sent a letter to congressional leadership urging them to reauthorize the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA) before the end of the calendar year and with the same bipartisan support it has had since its original authorization 17 years ago.

Led by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the coalition called on Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to include a comprehensive 5-year PAHPA reauthorization in moving legislation this year.

“Our nation’s changing health security threat landscape and the federal government’s responsibility to protect the American people demand that we work together now to find a strong bipartisan path forward to reauthorize this critical legislation,” write the signatories. “Failing to reauthorize PAHPA would have serious effects on our country’s economic well-being, national security, and health security given the rapidly changing threat landscape.”

Read the full letter.

Signatories, in alphabetical order:

  • 1Day Sooner
  • Acadian Ambulance Service, Inc.
  • Adaptive Phage Therapeutics
  • Aequor Inc.
  • American Ambulance Association
  • America’s Essential Hospitals
  • American College of Emergency Physicians
  • American College of Surgeons
  • American Hospital Association
  • American Lung Association
  • American Pharmacies
  • American Public Health Association
  • American Society for Microbiology
  • Arizona Bioindustry Association, Inc. (AZBio)
  • Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
  • Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs
  • Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
  • Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
  • AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals
  • ATCC (American Type Culture Collection)
  • Atea Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  • Bavarian Nordic
  • Big Cities Health Coalition
  • BioCT
  • BioForward Wisconsin
  • BioKansas
  • BioNJ
  • Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO)
  • Bugworks
  • Cencora
  • Colorado BioScience Association
  • Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
  • Council of State Bioscience Associations (CSBA)
  • CSL Seqirus
  • Emergency Department Practice Management Association
  • Emergent BioSolutions
  • Federation of American Scientists
  • FluGen Inc.
  • Georgia Bio
  • Gerontological Society of America
  • Ginkgo Bioworks
  • Global Health Investment Corporation
  • Global Health Technologies Coalition
  • Gryphon Scientific
  • GSK
  • Health Industry Distributors Association (HIDA)
  • Healthcare Distribution Alliance
  • Healthcare Leadership Council
  • Healthcare Ready
  • Helix
  • HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society)
  • HIV Medicine Association
  • IAVI (International AIDS Vaccine Initiative)
  • Illinois Biotechnology Innovation Organization
  • Infectious Diseases Society of America
  • INOVIO Pharmaceuticals
  • Institute for Progress
  • Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
  • Life Sciences PA
  • Locus Biosciences
  • Mallinckrodt
  • Marked By Covid
  • MassBio
  • McKesson
  • Medical Alley
  • Medical Countermeasures Coalition
  • Missouri Biotechnology Association (MOBIO)
  • National Association of County and City Health Officials
  • National Immigration Law Center
  • New Mexico Biotechnoiogy & Biomedical Association (NMBio)
  • New Orleans BioInnovation Center
  • NewYorkBIO
  • NightHawk Biosciences
  • Novavax
  • Ochsner Health
  • Ohio Life Sciences Association
  • Oklahoma Bioscience Association
  • PDS Biotechnology
  • PharmaJet Inc.
  • Premier Inc.
  • Public Health Accreditation Board
  • Research!America
  • SAB Biotherapeutics, Inc.
  • Sanofi
  • SecureBio
  • Shionogi Inc.
  • SIGA Technologies, Inc.
  • Society for Public Health Education
  • Soligenix, Inc.
  • Technologies for Pandemic Defense
  • Texas Healthcare & Bioscience Institute
  • Tonix Pharmaceuticals
  • Trinity Health
  • TrippBio, Inc.
  • Trust for America’s Health
  • United States Pharmacopeia (USP)
  • University of Hawaii
  • University of Maryland School of Medicine
  • Valneva USA
  • Vaxxas Inc
  • Virginia Biotechnology Association