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DHS Office of Health Affairs

Agency overview

Formed

2003

Jurisdiction

United States

Headquarters

DHS Nebraska Avenue Complex, Washington D.C.

Employees

101 (2012)

Annual budget

$0.2 billion (2012)

Agency executive

  • Katherine Brinsfield, Assistant Secretary

Parent agency

Department of Homeland Security

Website

DHS Office of Health Affairs

The Office of Health Affairs (OHA) is a component within the United States Department of Homeland Security. OHA provides health and medical expertise in support of the department's mission to prepare for, respond to, and recover from all hazards affecting the nation’s health security. This included the execution of ″Project BioWatch″, an early warning detection network of air samplers in more than 30 US cities.[1]

The Office of Health Affairs was led by the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Health Affairs, who also serves as the DHS chief medical officer and who is appointed by the President of the United States with confirmation by the United States Senate. The current assistant secretary is Katherine Brinsfield. The OHA was absorbed into the DHS Countering WMD Office in 2018.[2]


Budget[edit]

DHS Health Affairs Budget, FY11-13 ($ in thousands) [3]

Line Item

FY11 Actual

FY12 Actual

FY13 Request

Salaries and Expenses

26,999

29,671

27,757

BioWatch

100,780

114,164

125,294

National Biosurvelliance Integration Center

7,000

12,013

8,000

Planning and Coordination

2,276

6,162

4,907

Chemical Defense Program

2,400

5,439

500

Total Budget

139,455

167,449

166,458

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Truth About BioWatch | Homeland Security".
  • ^ "Office of Health Affairs Organizational Chart | Homeland Security".
  • ^ "Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 Budget Budget in Brief, DHS, pg 141" (PDF). Department of Homeland Security. 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-10.

    • External links[edit]

    Deputy Secretary

  • Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Director)
  • U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
  • Customs and Border Protection
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
  • United States Secret Service
  • Office of Operations Coordination
  • Transportation Security Administration
  • Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Director)
  • Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office
  • Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans
  • Office of Immigration Statistics
  • Homeland Security Advisory Council

    • Science and
    Technology

    Science and Technology Directorate

  • Explosives Division
  • Chemical and Biological Defense Division
  • Border and Maritime Security Division
  • Human Factors and Behavioral Sciences Division
  • Infrastructure Protection and Disaster Management Division
  • Cyber Security Division (National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center)
  • Command, Control and Interoperability Division

    • Intelligence and Analysis

  • Office of Intelligence and Analysis

    • Management

  • Federal Protective Service
  • Office of Biometric Identity Management

  • Terrorism in the United States

    • Organizations

    Federal
    administrative

  • National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
  • National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility
  • National Bioforensic Analysis Center

    • DNI

    DHHS

  • Division of Select Agents and Toxins (CDC)
  • National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity

    • DoD

  • Defense Threat Reduction Agency
  • Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System
  • Joint Program Executive Office of Chemical and Biological Defense (JPEO-CBD)
  • National Center for Medical Intelligence

    • Federal
    research

    Trans-
    departmental

  • Integrated National Biodefense Medical Countermeasures Portfolio (DHHS/DoD)

    • Military

  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • Edgewood Chemical Biological Center
  • Dugway Proving Ground

    • Civilian

  • Integrated Research Facility (HHS/NIAID)
  • Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (HHS)
  • Homeland Security Research Program (EPA/DHS)
  • Plum Island Animal Disease Center (USDA)
  • Foreign Disease Weed Science Research Unit (USDA)

    • Response

    Local

    State

  • Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit

    • Federal

  • Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (USMC)
  • Epidemic Intelligence Service (CDC)
  • Aeromedical Biological Containment System (CDC)
  • Bioterror Rapid Response and Advanced Technology Laboratory (CDC)

    • Non-
    governmental

    Academic centers
    and think tanks

  • Henry L. Stimson Center
  • Center for Advancing Microbial Risk Assessment
  • Center for Biodefense and Emerging Pathogens (Brown University)
  • Middle-Atlantic Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research
  • Center for Biodefense Immune Modeling (University of Rochester)
  • Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies
  • National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases (NCBID; George Mason Univ.)

    • Government
    contractors

  • SRI International
  • Idaho Technology
  • Phoenix Air

    • Programs
    and projects

    Threat reduction

  • Project Bacchus
  • Project Clear Vision
  • Project Jefferson

    • Biosurveillance

  • Laboratory Response Network (CDC)
  • BioWatch (EPA, CDC)
  • Global Bio-Surveillance Technology Initiative (GBTI), Bio-Surveillance Management Office (BMO) (part of JPEO-CBD)
  • ESSENCE (DoD)
  • RODS (Civilian)

    • Biosecurity/Biosurety

  • Personnel Reliability Program (DoD)

    • Medical intelligence

    Disaster response

  • National Disaster Medical System (DHHS)
  • Strategic National Stockpile (CDC, DHS)

    • Technology
    and equipment

    Protection

  • NBC suit
  • Respirators

    • Detection

  • Biological Materials MASINT
  • Autonomous Pathogen Detection System
  • Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System (JBAIDS)

    • Biocontainment

  • Biosafety cabinet
  • Positive pressure personnel suit

    • Law

    Treaties

  • Statement on Chemical and Biological Defense Policies and Programs (1969)
  • Biological Weapons Convention (1972)

    • Legislation

  • Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991
  • Executive Order 13139 (1999)
  • Patriot Act (2001)
  • Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness Response Act (2002)
  • Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002
  • Project Bioshield Act (2004)
  • Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005
  • Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (2005)
  • Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (2006)
  • Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of 2013

    • International
    representation

  • Global Partnership Against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction
  • United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004)

    • History

    Past biological
    incidents

  • 1989 California medfly attack
  • 2001 anthrax attacks
  • Wood Green ricin plot (2002)
  • 2003 ricin letters
  • 2013 ricin letters

    • Defunct organizations
    and programs

  • United States biological weapons program
  • Sunshine Project
  • Aeromedical Isolation Team (DoD)

    • Related topics

  • Biodefense
  • Biosecurity in the United States
  • Biological agent
  • Biological hazard
  • Biological warfare (BW)
  • Biosurveillance
  • Bioterrorism
  • CBRN defense
  • Decontamination
  • Entomological warfare
  • Isolation (health care)
  • Select agent
  • Smallpox virus retention debate


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