A 1-day, open public meeting of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC), Office of Infectious Diseases (OID), was held on May 6, 2015, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to Board members and CDC staff, the meeting was attended by representatives of severalpublic healthpartnerorganizations (Appendix).

The meeting included reports from the BSC Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Surveillance Workgroup (FSMA SWG) and the BSC Infectious Disease Laboratory Workgroup (IDLWG), along with updates from OID, the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP),theNationalCenterforImmunization andRespiratoryDiseases(NCIRD),andtheNational Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID).1 The meeting also included presentations on the CDC Surveillance Strategy and the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) and a conversation with CDC Director Thomas Frieden.

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20150506_BSCOID_Minutes.pdf

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