; (2) supporting global health security requires operationalizing the One Health concept linking human, animal, and environmental health; (3) the United States must be prepared to prevent, detect, and respond to the threat posed by bioterrorism, as well as accidental releases from a laboratory; (4) it is in the national interest of the United States— (A) to promote global health security; and (B) to accelerate efforts to build the capacity of countries— (i) to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious diseases; and (ii) to achieve the core capacities required by the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations, adopted at Geneva May 23, 2005; (5) no single nation can be prepared or protected if other nations remain unprepared to counter biological threats; (6) national and international multi-sectoral cooperation and preparedness are at the core of effective control of infectious diseases through strengthened health systems and preparedness; (7) global health security depends upon collaborations across all societal sectors, including human and animal health, agriculture, development, environmental, national security and defense, science and technology, academic and research communities, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector, to meet the policy objective set forth in section 4(3) of strengthening health systems and pandemic preparedness; (8) an effective global health security strategy should include— (A) preventing avoidable incidents and catastrophes, such as antimicrobial resistance, zoonotic diseases, outbreaks, breaches of biosafety and security, and immunization-preventable deaths; (B) detecting threats early through— (i) building and sustaining national and global laboratory systems; (ii) improving disease surveillance; (iii) enhancing the reporting of infectious disease outbreaks; and (iv) developing the health workforce; and (C) responding to threats rapidly and effectively through— (i) emergency operations centers