; or (ii) to diagnose, mitigate, prevent, or treat harm from an underlying non-communicable disease which, combined with pandemic influenza or an emerging infectious disease, may result in adverse health consequences or serious threat to one or more vulnerable American populations (as defined in section 319L(a)) in an epidemic or pandemic. . (2) Other definitions Subsection (a) of section 319L of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 247d–7e ) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraphs: (11) Population health product The term population health product means a widely available drug to diagnose, mitigate, prevent, or treat harm from an underlying non-communicable disease which, combined with pandemic influenza or an emerging infectious disease, may result in adverse health consequences or a serious threat to one or more vulnerable American populations in an epidemic or pandemic. (12) Vulnerable American populations The term vulnerable American populations means children, pregnant women, older adults, minority populations, and other at-risk individuals with relevant characteristics that warrant consideration during the process of researching and developing such countermeasures and products. . (b) Strategic initiatives Clause (ii) of section 319L(c)(4)(F) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d–7e(c)(4)(F)) is amended to read as follows: (ii) threats that consistently exist or continually circulate and have a significant potential to become a pandemic, such as pandemic influenza and emerging infectious diseases in combination with underlying non-communicable diseases, which may include the advanced research and development, manufacturing, and appropriate stockpiling of qualified pandemic or epidemic products, and products, technologies, or processes to support the advanced research and development of such countermeasures (including multiuse platform technologies for diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics; virus seeds; clinical trial lots; novel virus strains