• Michael Place, MD (Major General, US Army – Retired) – Former Chief of Staff, Office of the Surgeon General, US Army Command, US Army
• Erica Pan, MD, MPH – Director and State Public Health Officer, California Department of Public Health
• Alex Hamberg, VMD, PhD – State Veterinarian, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
• Clint Osborn – Director, District of Columbia Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency
• Lori Tremmel Freeman, MBA – Chief Executive Officer, National Association of County and City Health Officials
• Tina Tan, MD, FIDSA, FPIDS, FAAP – President, Infectious Disease Society of America
• Ali S. Khan, MD, MPH – Dean, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center
• Richard J. Hatchett, MD – Chief Executive Officer, Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations
• Matthew Hepburn, MD – Executive Vice President, Research and Development, Panther Life Sciences
• Leonard J. Marcus, PhD – Co-Director, National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, Harvard University
• Taylor Sexton, MPH – Executive Director, Medical Countermeasures Coalition
• David Stiefel, MA – Director, Global Biological Policy and Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative
• Joe Buccina, MA, MS– Policy and Research Director, National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology
• Patricia R. Bright, DVM – Former Senior Science Advisor, One Health/Global Health Security, US Geological Survey

Learn more here: https://biodefensecommission.org/events/biodefense-in-crisis-danger-and-opportunity/

This Commission meeting, Astrobiodefense: Biological Threats and the Next Frontier, was held on May 8, 2025. The focus of this meeting will be to provide the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense with a better understanding of how to strengthen international astrobiodefense and planetary protection efforts through: (1) current government astrobiodefense efforts; (2) new scientific and technological advances for astrobiodefense; and (3) collaborative efforts and public-private partnerships to improve astrobiodefense.

See more information here: https://biodefensecommission.org/events/astrobiodefense-biological-threats-and-the-next-frontier/

The Commission's May 8, 2025 meeting began with Executive Director Dr. Asha M. George delivering the first annual State of National Biodefense address. The increasing biological threat and uncertainty surrounding federal biodefense programs and capabilities necessitates a clear-eyed examination of the threat and US efforts to address critical capability gaps. This address will lay out the current realities of national biodefense and the Commission’s vision for a future where the Nation can more effectively prevent, deter, prepare for, detect, respond to, attribute, recover from, and mitigate biological incidents.

Read her written testimony here: https://biodefensecommission.org/the-state-of-u-s-biodefense-written-remarks-by-dr-asha-m-george/