Featured in this issue: Broadening the Public Health Security Agenda, By Patrick P. Rose; Biothreat Preparedness – Less Talking, More Doing, By Catherine Feinman; Public Health – How Prepared Is the Nation?, By Patrick P. Rose; Bioterror – The Threat, The Defense & The Future, By Richard Schoeberl; Importance of the Global Health Security Agenda, By Raphael M. Barishansky & Audrey Mazurek; International Public Health Concerns – Not So Foreign, By Robert C. Hutchinson; Special Facilities – More Than Just Shelters, By Joseph Cahill; Building & Maintaining a Strong Disaster Volunteer Force, By Harlan Dolgin; and Revisiting the Staging Area Manager, By Robert Mueck