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The Apollo Program for Biodefense – Winning the Race Against Biological Threats

Report cover for The Apollo Program For Biodefense

The Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense released a new report in January 2021 recommending a comprehensive investment in the fight to end pandemic threats. The Apollo Program for Biodefense, so-named for the ambitious and successful Apollo 11 mission to put a human on the moon, seeks to end the threat of pandemics by 2030.

The Apollo Program for Biodefense is an ambitious goal-directed program to develop and deploy the technologies needed to defend against all biological threats, empower public health, and prevent pandemics, no matter what the source.

Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense

Texas A&M Global One Health Associate Dean, Dr. Gerald W. Parker, Jr., serves as an Ex Officio member of the Commission.

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One health topics form the content for a rural middle school STEM-Promotion Project

The VMBS PEER (Partnerships for Environmental Education and Rural Health) program at Texas A&M University promotes STEM and provides veterinary students and undergraduate students with the opportunity to share their knowledge about One Health and veterinary medicine with K-12 students and teachers throughout Texas. The overall goal is to use students’ natural interest in animals and the environment to help motivate them to learn, excel, and someday pursue a career in science (STEM). 

A free, new, middle school standards-based, and remote-learning curriculum has been designed to be self-directed and interactive. Academic content of this curriculum is centered on the concept of One Health, which recognizes the interconnectedness among people, animals, and their shared environment. One health topics covered include: cell biology, infectious diseases, genetics, stress, ecology, and the clinical trials.

For more information, visit https://vetmed.tamu.edu/peer/one-health.