PREVENT Pandemics Act of 2022

Abstract

This bill proposes a comprehensive approach to strengthening the nation’s preparedness and response capabilities for existing and emerging infectious diseases, including pandemics. The bill covers a wide range of areas, including federal leadership and accountability, state and local readiness, improving public health preparedness and response capacity, accelerating research and countermeasure discovery, modernizing and strengthening the supply chain for vital medical products, and enhancing development and combating shortages of medical products. The bill proposes various mechanisms to improve public health infrastructure, enhance workforce capacity, accelerate medical product research and development, and strengthen supply chains to ensure a more robust and effective response to future public health emergencies. – AI-generated abstract.